 “It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me.It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.”

"I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting...It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death.