It must be! Thanks Lyn
I know this is going to sound like a stupid question, but do you find much difference in the general publics attitude to art in France than in the UK?
After reading through everything I could get my monitor on in here, from what I can gather, portrait painting isn't regarded the same way in the UK as it appears to be in the USA. It might be the old British reserve happening, and the general misunderstandings of what art is worth, and how it's practiced ( especially with the media jumping on conceptual art so much ).