The background images is created from details of Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Sunflowers.

Vincent van Gogh is my personal favorite painter, and to me he embodies the power of artistic integrity, struggling on to create his personal work despite being ridiculed by most people, selling nothing, and not having any indication at the time in art tradition that there was any value to his work at all.

Irving Stone, biographer of the great artists, have written a brilliant bio of van Gogh; Lust for Life. (The book can be bought on this page on Amazon.com.)

- Eolake Stobblehouse