Bill Botten "The Wedding" (detail)

200 x 76 cms Acrylics on Canvas "I know only what I go through – a constant battle between doubt and intuition. Boringly I admit to tens of thousands of decisions believing only one is right, but wonderfully with rare moments of abandonment and flow. In a well meaning ( genuinely) but ignorant ( genuinely) way people say it must be a lovely hobby. It’s not. It can be lovely but for me I know of the plagues of insecurity. I do it because I yearn for it, live it, and yes love it. I am self taught in art and, I suppose, poetry. I had not entered art prizes but have vowed to now do so, overcoming skepticism, or perhaps insecurity. Until the last few months I have not been represented by any galleries although I have held many exhibitions at galleries primarily in Adelaide also one each in Melbourne and Hongkong".