Inspiration

Living in a country with spectacular natural beauty I’m surrounded by inspiration. Food for the soul! I love the big vistas, a spectacular sky and mountains but the small details draw me in. Mosses, twisted tree roots and fungi are the things that fire up my imagination.

Wow! hard not to be moved by this!

I find it intriguing how personal preferences shape not only how we see things, but also what we look at in the first place. A light pattern in a forest, a perfect grouping of toadstools, a fairly ordinary beach-washed tree are the things I will notice. Someone else will have completely different experience.

Nice little grouping on one of my walks

Moeraki has more than just boulders.

I find it a bit overwhelming the amount of images on social media, again its my preferences that lead me to certain artists, I have artists that I study because there’s a certain “flavour” to their art that I admire, and other artists who have completely different work from me, but an expertise in technical skill I would like to achieve.

At an exhibition I will be the person with their nose up close to the artwork trying to figure out how they did it.

One of my little forest creatures.

Its one of the things I love about the mystery of art making, the fact that their is no one source all my likings and leanings, an idea had today can be a slow burning idea from years ago, or something I saw yesterday.

One of my regular spots for taking photos of my creatures.