They are both printed, right? Yes, technically they are both prints. But a newspaper is

I’m self-taught. At high school I was a kind of self-chosen loner because of the cranky circumstances at home. Saving some distance between me and my school mates seems to be a good idea to me. But social pressure is a big thing when you are young, so …

I know the impression that everything has already been done. And the other acclaimed opinion: There are no original ideas because everything is based on (sometimes unconscious) earlier seen things. If you take these not too literally I’m willing to agree with these pronouncements, but to explicitly mention another person as an example is just too much credit.

I’m living in New Zealand and most of my clients are not. The worldwide shipment of an original painting is at my expense. The shipment for a canvas giclée in a tube (rolled with no stretchers) is for my expense too.

After a week dragging myself through the lessons, I slowly started to hate it. Everyday I had forgotten what I had learned the day before. And every day I felt guilty about the lost time.