Artist Statement/Biography:I can’t express my approach to painting any better than Boston artist Polly Thayer did in 2001: “I want to see with my whole being. William Blake called it seeing through the eye rather than with the eye: instead of superimposing my own expectations on a subject, I seek what the form will reveal of essence, what the visible will tell me of the invisible. It is an effort that requires intense, prayerful attention, but if the seeing is honest and the hand is well trained, a revelation will emerge. The reward is bliss.”