“It’s very important to me to counter the preconceptions of art equating to money. All the money I make from my art will always be given to children, in the form of drawing paper and art materials, from their earliest years, in perpetuity. Self-expression is vital for everybody and I would like my work to always be supporting of this vision. 

I believe that all children are born geniuses, in their own way.

In line with this movement of democratising access to art and art supplies, I prefer for my art to not have a fixed price but rather vary in value according to the situation of the individual. People are wealthy in varying degrees and I want the price to reflect that, with the monetary value being determined by offers. A certain price might mean nothing to a billionaire but be completely out of reach for someone suffering in poverty. Everybody fits somewhere between and the sales should reflect that. It is up to the conscience and the capacity of each individual to decide how much they’d contribute to this movement in exchange for a drawing.”

- Julia Whatley, the artist behind Gadfly, written by Izzy Walter.