I am an amateur painter who never pick up a brush until I was 50. I never dreamed of ever being an artist, since I couldn't even draw. I would probably have given up before this, if not for the encouragement of George Burris Johnson, a fine landscapre painter who moved into my neighborhood. and Les Reed who lived in the same Park I did during the winter in Florida. Les got me started and George kept me painting. Thank God for sending them both into my life.