I am inspired by:

• My ever-expanding digital library of aerial photographs remains a significant catalyst for my decision to start painting and remains a great inspiration. For years before my resignation, I photographed aerial views while flying, and I continue to do so.
• Music is integral to my art making.  It flows through my body and emerges onto the canvas.  In my early mark making and flow of paint, I may be dance-painting to traditional African music or jazz or hip-hop.  When I am working on the final details of a painting, I change to quieter music to facilitate contemplation and allow the incorporation of fine details. 
• “Creating Place” inspires and influences me.  Once I have shaken hands with a new or familiar “Place,” painting flows freely and time doesn’t exist. 
• Travel and cultural exchange nourish my creativity.  I explore new ideas and methods during immersive, highly focused painting periods away from my studio. Within the past two years, I attended a week-long painting workshop and traveled throughout Morocco,  participated in a month-long Artists’ Residency at Chateau Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France and painted during two annual month-long pilgrimages to St. Martin in the French West Indies.  These adventures trigger a transition in my work and a new connection to unique and astounding environments.
• Artists I find intriguing inspire me.  Even if their work is unrelated to my own, I can learn from their concepts, thought processes, aesthetics, experimentation, and growth over time. Their humanity and connection to the physical world and its occupants inspire me.

INTRIGUING ARTISTS
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Warhol
Antoni Gaudi
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
David Hockney
David Kapp
Elsa Schiaparelli
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gianni Moretti
Gilbert Garcin
Gottfried Jager
Henri Matisse
James Nares
Jim Dine
M. C. Escher
Mark Rothko
Pat Steir
Piet Mondrian
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Richard Diebenkorn
Tove Jansson
Wassily Kandinsky
Yuichi Inoue