When you ask people who knew Bill Ainslie what he was like, the answer is always, ‘He was a good person.’ And then they go on to say that he had a warmth about him, that he respected people, and that he was a decent man. Well, that says much, especially since he lived at a time in South Africa when loyalty to certain groups and hostility to others were encouraged by law and custom. But Bill Ainslie was much more than just a decent person, special as that was. He did things, he thought things, and he made things happen for himself and many kinds of people. This handbook offers ways of discovering who he was, what he did and how he did it. It lays strong emphasis upon Ainslie as a teacher and, especially, on his life as a painter. – Excerpt from www.billainslie.com
