Category: Inspiration
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Showing Up for the Joy of Your Artistry
Here’s some advice I often share with advanced art students — it’s about a common problem we artists face, of caring too much about what others think about our art… I used to care a lot about what other people thought of my art. This made me miserable. I would think was my work good…
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Supporting Nature with Art & Music: Earth/Percent
I’ve become a contributing artist with Earth/Percent ( https://www.earthpercent.org/ ) Nature and its incredible variety, ferocity, calmness and beauty are primary sources of inspiration for my art and music — and over the years, as I’ve learned more and more about the outdoors, the more I’ve also learned that all of our acts of creativity…
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Visual Inspirations from Natural Patterns and Forces

The imagery that I work with comes almost entirely from observations of patterns in nature, some of which are very specific and others of which were more generalized for artistic reasons of expression, composition, and form. The imagery also comes from the ways in which I organize those observations as movements, improvised within the possibilities…