How to Paint is the impressive first collection of writing by Chris Harris, a Surrey, B.C.based painter and sculptor noted for his dense, coloursaturated paintings and powerful sculptures. Born in Manitoba and raised by his grandmother, a Native Cree Indian, Harris has led a peripatetic life that furnishes the eclectic, sometimes controversial material. Having worn past identities as varied as millworker, fisherman, sand castle champion, lighthouse keeper, Inuit carver, and gargoyle builder, Harris fashions prose pieces of elegiac intensity. Love him or shudder, Harris"s book "about being lost in the inbetweens and withouts" exercises a potent fascination.