Desmond Alli, like most artists, splits his time between his creative pursuits and trying to make a living.
In addition to being a painter and sculptor, Alli has been teaching Spanish privately.
According to him, artists here with graduate qualifications enter the teaching profession or, those with some finance leave the country for greener pastures. The less fortunate ones, he said in a letter, published in the April 27, 2011 edition of Stabroek News, are the self-taught artists who have to so some handy work