I am Irish. I am 73 and have been in the United States for 6 years as a consequence of a meeting with a former girlfriend. I taught my self to paint when I was made redundant from my job as a radio station engineer. I was too old for another job so I took to writing first. This worked up to the point where I tried to publish and then they were too long, about the wrong subject or just not what was wanted right now, thank you very much. I switched over to painting and started with oil. These I started to sell almost immediately for small...more