Silence Red 1 36x40" oil/mixed media on panel©2012 Janice Mason Steeves In my last blog post , I wrote about painting for an audience and how difficult I find that. Interestingly, since writing that post, I've started to read a book called Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain. My need to paint in privacy I learn is very much an introverted way of being and creating in the world. My introverted self just doesn't want to paint in public. This book is helpful to me in understanding this. Cain writes, "From 1956-1962, an era best remembered for its ethos of stultifying conformity, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley, conducted a series of studies on the nature of creativity. They assembled a list of architects, mathematicians, scientists, engineers and writers who had made major contributions to their fields and invited them to Berke