The greatest joy I have had as an artist happened at a show some years back. I did a collage painting as a diversion from my usual work, which at the time was almost exclusively watercolor. I wasn't even sure if I liked this particular painting but I threw a price on it, dropped it in one of my bins and took it to the show. About halfway through the day two women came by. I tried to make eye contact and verbal contact but they did not seem interested. One of the women started looking through my bins and when she came upon this particular painting she pulled...more
