Artistic Influences

(MAY 25, 2014)



I'm much more influenced by authors than I am by painters but I am definitely influenced by Salvador Dali, Edward Munch, and Frida Kahlo. I have no formal artistic training. I've never taken a drawing class or a painting class. I just went to the art supply store, bought paint, canvas, and brushes and went home and went at it. It's been a slow progression. Very slow. But I always become inspired to paint when I find a new muse. I'm a loner that feeds off other people's energy. But not all people. I like to be around artists, musicians, cooks, pastry chefs, poets...people of that sort. What some refer to as "creatives" although I feel everyone is creative in their own way. I believe that we are all tiny reflections of the multiverse. I believe the multiverse is creative energy manifested in different physical ways. We are one of those ways.

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