我们所经历的一切际遇,它们的精妙程度,与我们心灵的精妙程度相关联。重要的不是我们经历了什么,而是面对我们所经历的种种,我们捕捉并感受到了什么。宝拉·瑞格的前半生,与任何一位在那个年代,敢于站出来,在公众面前,表达自己的真实感受的女艺术家一样,被婚姻问题、病痛和离群索居所折磨。在1988年,她的丈夫,亦是她的精神导师,维克·威灵(Vic Willing)过世,悲痛欲绝的女画家,创作了她人生的唯一一幅自传体油画 All the experiences we experience, their subtlety, are related to the subtlety of our mind. What matters is not what we have experienced, but what we have captured and felt in the face of what we have experienced. The first half of Paula Rigg, like any female artist who dared to step up and express her true feelings in the days before that, was afflicted by marital problems, sickness and out-dressing. In 1988, her husband, also her mentor, Vic Willing’s deadly painterly painter, created the only autobiographical painting of her life