How do I started my career as an artist?

How do I started my career as an artist?
My mother enrolled me in many classes between my age of 5 to 10 years: music, dance, karate, etc. But when I get into painting classes I felt identified and comfortable, I discovered a taste for the visual arts and since then I did not stop drawing until I entered the university, the null support that I had from my parents to make an artistic career, I discouraged them in computers programming that was the closest thing I found to my passion for creativity. I do not regret it because thanks to my computer engineering I have been able to have a broader vision of art and how to develop my work.
My work I can be distinguish in two types, however both have the same origin: me, my life and my childhood The first branch I discovered when I married, had children and separated, this forced me to realize that the separation of my parents affected me more than I had believed. All my ghosts, fears and monsters came to the surface and the painting, drawing and collage has been a catharsis to these roulettes of emotions. I marry a European woman who has a cultural and values ​​origin very different from mine and who discovered it already late. This made me reflect on the nonverbal violence that a man or a woman can receive during a relationship and on the importance of the redefinition of masculinity and the role of man in a family and a relationship. The second branch is connected with the frustration of the difference in classes that I experienced during my childhood and which projects it looking for solutions to create equal opportunities and a fair distribution of wealth in the art world.
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