A painting Portrait of Edmond Belamy is up for auction at Christies in New York City in October. It is estimated to sell for $7,000 – $10,000. AI is predicted to take our jobs one day but now it seems It will also impinge on our leisure time – at least for those of us who paint – according to reports this will be the first computer-generated artwork presented at auction.
I live and work in Auckland, New zealand. I am a serial dabbler in the arts, with an interest in writing, poetry, public speaking and painting. I’m a frequent writer and commentator on intellectual property and information technology issues. I regularly write on and lecture on the art of advocacy, both oral and written. An example is a webinar I gave in 2018 “Mastering Advocacy: Effective Written and Oral Advocacy and How to Maximise Both”. My goal as an artist is to try and capture a little piece of that magnificent natural beauty that exists around us and preserve it in a time capsule so others can ponder and experience the wonder, before it evaporates away into the endless sands of time.
