Letters, emails and comments
Professional status
In response to Jan Cantle’s letter about the terminology ‘professional artist’ you offered a very appropriate definition. I have not looked up the dictionary’s definition of ‘amateur’ fearing a circular argument! The gallery that Jan refers to should have defined the term in order to provide meaning to the restriction in their rules. Gustave Caillebotte and Vincent van Gogh are two examples of great artists who would not have qualified as a ‘professional artist’ for that gallery – hmm.