Why did the artist decline to accept my fine art commission or custom artisan jewelry order?
You know those artists, finicky, mercurial, eccentric! There are really two main reasons why the artist may decline your request for a commissioned or custom piece: time and those muses resulting in artists being labeled as above. The artist feels that if she is not moved by the piece you are suggesting she create, than you as her patron will not be well served if she creates it anyway. After years of disatisfaction at attempts to create what others wanted her to create and not what she was inspired by, Kim O’Connor made a decision as an artist to only take on projects which are purely from the well of creativity from which she operates. So maybe she chose not to do your piece simply because it does not turn her on to use the vernacular. Or it may be because she does not have the time to get a finished piece to you in what she considers a reasonable time and therefor feels it would be better for all to simply not take the commission. Much of art takes a great deal of time to create and
