I have been asked - what inspires you when you paint"?  Do you use pictures, or do you paint from your imagination.  I use both.  However, what I have experienced is that the painting takes on a life of its own and that soon you are following the brush strokes, rather than creating them.  This is the dance of art.. this is the place where creation flows through you, where time flies and yet stands still at the same time.

With this painting - Fields of Abundance I used a photograph for the shapes of the two Ladies.  The rest was created as I went along.