The poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979) described her writing as a way of life, and it not being a matter of ' testifying' but 'experiencing.' The important thing is not the way one goes about interpreting the world but the very process of sensing it.

I find this to be the same with painting.

Whether on site or in the studio, I take the subject, and then jump off from it, always keeping about me the feeling of the thing seen. But whatever the subject, it is really just about surface, and what you do with paint. A painting is superficial,but has the capacity to go deep and put the senses on high alert.

Marina Mason