Asking advice from an old friend of my parents

The image below is an inaccurate reproduction of a painting from 1952 by William Townsend (1909-1973), a friend of William Coldstream ( Head of the Slade ), and a staff  lecturer at the Slade School of Art. The original is more Cobalt Blue than Electric Blue, more Yellow Ochre than Lemon Yellow,  but I digress.
The point is that I went to see him in !971, only two years before his death. At the time I was two years into an architecture course.  I was unhappy as an architecture student and dreamed of a career in art. William looked at a couple of paintings of mine, and advised me to stick with the architecture.
Good advice, as events turned out, since I have never made much money from my paintings.

William Townsend Hop Gardens in Kent

MIchael Andrews 1980

A beautiful painting by a superb artist who does not get the attention he deserves.
This is another  illustration, like the Ravilious and the George, from David Dimbleby's ' A Picture of Britain'.
I have a clear memory of his paintings at an exhibition in London in the late 1980s. This included some of his distinctive paintings of balloons floating above a desert landscape, with their ghostly shadows cast onto the sand below.
Clean, crisp, paintings, with a still, other-world power to fascinate.
He typically spray-painted acrylic, and worked with photographs, but the results far surpass photography.
Sadly, he died in 1995.

Patrick George in Suffolk In the 1960s

Ravilious : The Vale of the White Horse

Eric Ravilious 1903-1942 : an under-rated English landscape artist.

The finished Haywain , as seen on TV.

My contribution is somewhere to the top right in the darker blue area.
I impressed the  organisers enough to be allowed back at the day's end
so that my panel was not obliterated by someone coming after me.