patrickthomas: I feel like I have hijacked this thread so I will try to get it back to where it was.
For what it's worth I am a Professional Artist, Changed to digital media some time ago and concentrate on short Film. I have moved recently to very beautiful and secluded location beside a lake to plot my next attempt to take over the World.
I guess to say I love my work is a bit of an understatement, I am just as passionate about it now as I was 30yrs ago. I avoid any level of publicity like the plague and I guess unusual in that I have working constantly since my first and last exhibition in 1986. I hated the limelight but was really good at it and loved the rock n roll lifestyle that went with it and the money too. I had ten years of fast cars and even faster women. I don't know how I survived, most of the people around me have not.
So I pile up the work, and it matters not if it is never seen until after my death. I know my work is good, but it is not for me to ever decide whether it is great. I would rather be judged by a generation as yet unborn and if they can look at my work and say I captured something of what it was like to live through the latter part of the 20th century and now with a different medium in the beginning of the 21st. Then and only then will I have been successful.
Ars Longa, Vitae Brevis.
Yeah I'm a leprecaun but not a total philistine with the art world.
Quite like neosurrealism and some visionary.
Work for ambos, do the occassional first aid courses, babysit the twin nieces, walk my gal Bridget and recently dogsit the new pups.
I love to cook and can whip up quite a delightful culinary surprise.
Like my occassional bourbon, the gym and have lived in Melbourne most of my life. Been single now 4 years, love the AFL.