After months in the wilderness our new website is finally online, before you switch off this isn't just a bit of self promotion, but an observation about what it takes to keep up as a professional artist these days. Back in 2004 I put my first website up www.makinnear.com and it has sold precisely 0 (really , zero) paintings, despite having thousands of visitors. I reckon that artist's websites are really just big interactive adverts rather than shops in the amazon/tesco sense of web commerce. The new website www.norfolkpaintingschool.com is really a makeover for one I wrote myself for the School back in 2006 (my web skills are pretty basic, so the site looked a bit Soviet if you will). The main impeyus for the new site wasn't just vanity though but functionality, I wanted to put useful content online for my existing and potential students; the technical side of which was beyond my ken. As of this morning the site now hosts free informational downloads, intended to suppliment artcles I write for magazines such as the ones that host this site. If you'd like a free article just visit and download it from the e-lesson section. I'd very much welcome any feedback on the site incidentally , as I'm a great beleiver in constantly improving what we do here.