How do you measure your worth? The paintings in an art gallery I visited were priced beyond my reach. I asked the expert what determined their worth.

She said the artist’s contribution to art, such as innovation and techniques, played a factor. “But, bottom line, it comes down to what someone will pay.”

She directed me to Michael Godard’s paintings and told me he started painting whimsical olives for his daughter when she had leukemia because they made her laugh. Before she died, she asked her father to keep painting the olives.Continue Reading