PLEIN AIR PAINTING INDOORS

After numerous embarrassments in the great outdoors I decided to try plein air painting in my apartment. One day I painted a garden of rhododendrons and azaleas from a photograph I clipped out of Town and Country. The head of St. Martin’s saw the painting at my London exhibition and told me breathlessly, “I can smell those flowers and I can feel the sun on your head as you painted them. It just proves what I tell all my students, ‘you can’t beat the experience of plein air painting!’”