She fell in love — not with Ingres, who was in his 60s, but with a painting in his studio ... tantalizingly from the vertical mirror frame and, reflected in the mirror, a tortoiseshell ...

Similarly, if you can draw in coloring books, you can paint murals. It's easy to test that theory this weekend at Oakland's Art & Soul Festival ... that his paintings reflect a sense of movement ...

In thin places, the soul awakens, the imagination is captivated ... Which could make the painting what -- a hymn to nature? A requiem to nature? Or both, or neither? "It's up to you," Lochnan ...