That's great about computer artist! :) To sell work, it's about giving people what they want, not what we think they should want. Its hard to get into people's head spaces. For my paintings I paint parochial scenes of my city. People identify with them. Last show we just pulled down I sold 16 of 24 works. The guy showing in the same gallery this week has beautiful paintings of Paris and Tokyo, but not beautiful enough to sell here in Oz. He has sold one.... but if he went to a tourist hotel in Paris etc he'd probably do much better. Abstract work is harder to sell, where as figurative work, given the right audience, is a bit easier I think.

Importnatly you can never judge the artistic value of an artwork by whether it sells or not so keep at it if that is your passion.

The only proviso is, that if you want to sell work, you need to give people something they want - t hey might want it as a perceived investment, because it reminds them of a place or a time or a person, or they might buy it because they feel sorry for you! (happens to me).

I've had one lady (a stranger) cry over one of my paintings in a gallery a few years ago  (a landscape) because it reminded her of her grand daughter - so I gave her the painting. Ever since she and her partner have been talking me up to various gallery owners (hasnt worked yet ;)  But I think there is karma in art in some ways.

Another lady got in touch with me about that first image in the thread and told me she cried when she saw it because it reminded her of her singing in a church when she was 12. So people react to artworks in different ways....