I know a lot of painters who are tireless at the craft of painting, hard at it in the studio. The biggest problem I see is the tendency to become pulled off in other directions by distractions, attractions, and the necessities of modern life. It feels like a shrinking audience too, concentrating a reward cycle in fewer hands. But, the best today are hard at it and the rest keep up as well as they can. Interesting note, there is a large, determined, and ambitious crop of women painters rising up with men pressing forth their story on the canvas.
Ha, ha. So, he was an actor playing the painter. Well, I was happy to suspend judgement and believe long enough to hear the voice of Brangwyn come through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGnlJ1fyFQ&fbclid=IwAR1QAc76AVb_Irxc-Gru-Mrh8O2sqJdwBmeNZMtrEY-PxcYW2KcJoLTEiok