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I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.