The aim of my art is to celebrate the flora. All of us are aware of the immeasurable value of the products of plants, from food and medicine to furniture, but my art celebrates an aspect of the flora that owes nothing to the industry of humanity. I celebrate the flora for what they are, not for what we make of them. The book contains my thoughts on painting, notes on the technique of painting with knives, reviews of my shows and over 130 pages of pictures of my paintings. Opposite each full page picture of a painting is a text describing the subject as well as an enlarged portion of the painting that reveals the knife technique.