What Is It That Attracts You to and Inspires You About Your Art Form?

We asked a group of creative person friends "What Inspires You?" Click on each name to visit their fine art website.

Verlaine Crawford

I am inspired past nature and the human form… lite, colour and movement. Artists guided me when I lived in Carmel, California, and during my travels to Europe, Nippon and Bali.

Wouter Goedkoop

I get inspired past people'south journeys and stories. Past combining them with my ain experiences and cultural background, I create unique storytelling pieces that celebrate their important life events.

Gill Tomlinson

My inspiration comes from the colour, light and life of Greece and the Mediterranean which I aim to capture in my on-location sketchbooks and the layers of my mixed-media artwork.

Nicole Moss

Magazines and books – the world of images – inspire me to make my surreal, narrative handmade collages. I take always been attracted to creating images that are dreamlike and tell a story that is interesting and challenging.

Sue Ziegler

In January, 2015 I offset picked up a drawing pencil to sketch my own horses.   Immediately I felt such a potent connectedness that I haven't stopped since!

Bryan Nelson

Wood is the most perfect of God'due south creations. A living treasure of subconscious beauty that remains hidden till information technology's death. I am humbled to exist able to reveal some of this hidden beauty. To help the trees live over again, to be resurrected and shine again.

Joy Munt

My paintings are an expression – a distillation – of the impressions made on my psyche by the landscapes around me, whether it exist the prairies in which I grew up, the Due west coast of my developed years or the short fourth dimension I spent in a big Eastern metropolis.

Gloria Clifford

Inspired by an intense love for our planet, my ocean and rain woods images bring public attention to threatened or endangered species. Using a bright color palette expresses this passion.

Jacqueline Doyle Allison

My paintings view the world through a lens of optimism and joy. Using abstracted imagery and clear, bright colors, I pigment expressively with intuition and the resulting artworks are a reflection of my inner earth.

Scooter Morris

Sculpted Paintings™ the three dimensional image on a two dimensional plane, are the passionate needed to reveal life's intricate details. The painting is a story unfolding, and I am inspired by the idea and the procedure.

Kristen Martin

In the moment of making art, I can just focus on being artistic and imagining something great forming in forepart of me.

Isabella Martire

In the past, raising money for cancer centers was a major driving force. Lately, the inner and outer beauty of people I know and love has been my inspiration.

Adele French

I am a New York based artist, roaming the city looking for inspiration to create my artwork.

Sabrina M

I'd like to give the viewer a glimpse of my world, inspired by my fears, dreams and feelings. I endeavour to portray fantasy, emotion and intense feelings in my piece of work.

Cora Smith

The inspiration for my art comes from life – an encounter, a moment captured or a glimpse of something undefined. I love to translate these things into created works that speak to the centre of a viewer.

Fabienne Jacquet

What inspires me? Dreams, reality, memories, beloved, death, art, oil pigment, skin and the magic of beingness alive.

Robert Mendoza

I've always been fatigued to old fairy tales, myths and stories total of magic and fantasy, especially if there's a nighttime twist woven somewhere into them. Obscure legends of old gods and goddesses from different cultures are also a great source of inspiration to me.

Nicci Sevier-Vuyk

The dazzler, optimism and intrigue of the commonplace inspires me. My work connects people to everyday life in a novel and playful manner.

Sylvia Cohen

I am interested in capturing moments of expression that portray the human psyche, blurring the line between fact and fiction. My portraits are captured from a number of photographs, non posed, more as character studies.

Louise Kleinsorge Williams

For me, the urge to create comes as a vague awareness: a desire to play, to see what evolves from looking over source material. Then, equally I piece of work, magic sets in. The epitome unfolds.

Britta Dietsche

I see y'all looking at me. What exercise you encounter? Why? "Queen Katharina" and the other series guide the observers' points of view towards releasing their desires.

Martha Brettschneider

My macro botanic photography is an integral part of my mindfulness practice. Press on metal brings out the miraculous details of nature's bounty and free energy—treasures of present moment awareness.

Jasmine Curtis

I am inspired by nature and wildlife. Through my fine art I acquire more about my subjects and their characteristics, and this drives me to create.

Chris White

As a visual person, I draw inspiration from a variety of sources that I meet in my solar day-to-day life. From textures to negative spaces—my inspiration is my environment.

Becca Gordon

Painting as both a medium and an action has e'er interested me with its space possibilities for construction and application. I love to create bold paintings with lots of layers.

Estela Galez

I'g ever trying to capture those little moments which are constantly calling my attention, such every bit a expect, an instant feeling, a spontaneous shadow or even the vivid color of vino.

Joan Gallagher

I beloved everything that shows color. I take my own photos and edit them and change them to brand the colors sing – then I paint that prototype. I get to combine my honey of photography and painting!

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