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gallery and sculpture garden.Over the years, with help from Michelle, he has developed many strategies for promotion and sales opportunities.


In 1987, after seven years, Binkley quit the grocery store job and began an intensive five year period of marketing his work by renting a day table at the Lonsdale Quay Market. He spent weekdays creating inventory in his studio and he and Michelle spent the weekends exhibiting and selling those sculptures at the Market. This venue increased his presence as an artist and encouraged his patrons to come to his studio gallery to see more work. That


same year he also began presenting a bi-annual group exhibition, called “Faces & Figure” with two other artists, held at different locations on Granville Island.


On an annual basis, he rented booth space at art and craft fairs in Vancouver, BC and Toronto, ON.


In 1990, after a decade of having his work in over a dozen gift stores and several galleries, Binkley realized his own marketing was trumping all the others’ sales. So he made the move to become exclusively self-represented.


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