Words, painting, building up & tearing down & building up, feel good ideas for bad times, the seven deadly sins, nature, the nature of mothering, jack purcells, non sequiturs, fear,visual patterns, sunny patches, color, hubris, faded cotton, stamen & pistols, children as heroes, moving earth, watching, memory, free will, big cities, quiet people, personality quirks and deficits, history
......Tokujin Yoshioka, Peter Plagens, Zach Feuer, Marcia Myers, Dave Eggers, Christoph Ruckhäberle,Richard Pryor, Tennessee Williams, Ayn Rand, Spalding Gray, Jack Lemmon, Gene Hackman,Julien Schnabel and his family, Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Ruby Dee, Eva Hesse.....
lately I start all painting sessions with Miles Davis - (i think all bands should find room for a trumpet) - the only thing that seems to get the studio right is Kind of Blue....after that anything goes, Miho Hatori (cool song called Walking City) MWard-the Rolling Stones at night the country influenced stuff - a roll of the thumb on the ipod...
often those staring Philip Seymour Hoffman
Oh Charlie
Those relating to Japanese prints, street art, Aubrey Beardsley, the Great World Atlas, Dictionaries of all sorts, books on flora and fauna, books on textiles, minimalist houses, landscape artchitecture, full range of magazines, painters and more painters.....Don Delilo*
earthworms