Greetings from Matinicus Island, Maine where I'm thinking about my art -- all the art I've created during the last 27 years -- as a whole, for the first time. in 27 years. When I began painting, I thought I would become a portrait painter. I got fairly good at it, but after painting my kids and my husband and my friends and my friend's kids and selling a number of portraits, I found the work not only unprofitable, but very tedious. In Mexico, where we owned a