Painter attended school as a child and worked on the farm.

During the 1960s the painter mainly lived and worked in France.

Her husband is a painter, working for a midsize company, who made $30,000 last year.

He was a prolific painter, working on 6 or more pieces at any given time.

Like many other painters working there, he is captivated by the special quality of the light.

When art was a tribal-religious activity, the painter worked for the whole community.

"Some painters can't work without special paints they have to order from Holland," he says.

Many painters worked - and still work today - at Willingshausen.

Now all he needed was to bribe the painters to work in this heat wave.

Both painters worked and studied outside their own country.