One could claim painters by the dozen who went with the push towards an abstraction which sought both a personal symbolism and a transcendence. I have extensively reviewed the expressionists of the New York school and draw unashamedly from them but the person who has been a great influence upon me for his mysticism has been Richard Pousette-Dart. Dart's The Transcendent-1946 reproduced here seems to sum up all that I aspire to -though as a fellow traveller not as someone to impersonate. I loved Pousette dart's notion of 'dancing' upon the canvas and of work which came out of 'numberless hours' secluded in the cathedral of his self.