About the show, MC Massey had this to say: Trips around France to have given me a chance to paint "en plein aire" as did the French impressionists. Wind in the face, canvas blowing like a sail, I worked on the beach at Roscoff, an ancient port town on the far northwest coast of France, very near to England. I used a painting knife because of the need for simplicity of technique. The tides are immense and the weather changes on a dime going in minutes from the bright sun of the flats painting (« Roscoff Flats ») to the fog of the pink and green town (« Roscoff Ville ») to the dark blue of the storm (« Roscoff Storm »).

With a bit less dramatic weather but equally dramatic landscape, I painted outside in Burgundy, the famous wine country in the center of France. In front of our farmhouse, however, were the fields the white Charolais cows graze. What amazed me about my "seeing" those grazing fields was how long it took me to draw them. I worked over a day on each of the two main viewpoints (« Burgundy Pasteurs – View West » 1 and 2 and « Burgundy Pasteurs – View North »). In this instance, seeing involved "not seeing", leaving out what was far too much to truly see, including the dozens of white cows, gathered in clumps in all corners.