Gillian Ayres, one of Britain's leading abstract painters of the last 60 years ... She never painted portraits or landscapes. "Shapes. Spaces. It's the way I see the world," she once said.

And with those techniques and learning how to mix colors, I kind of started moving into painting. I did abstract at first, ...

Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now ... a revealing link between Abstract Expressionist painters like Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and 19 th century Romantics.