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Influences

My work has been inspired in part by the following influences.  Some of these artists and creations have been a part of me for many many years, some are newer.  All have affected me in a lasting way.  I put a star next to the five items in each category that have the greatest affect on my work and on me personally.  I literally would not be the person I am, making the art that I make, had I not encountered these influences.

These links lead to Amazon.com pages because I thought that might offer both images and information.  But I encourage anyone with interest to also google these people, books and movies.  They may not all strike your fancy, but they are all worth knowing.

 
20 Artists
   

Alice Neel    *

Andrew Wyeth

Barbara Kruger

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Diego Rivera

Frank Gehry   *

Jennifer Bartlett

Jenny Holzer   *

Jim Dine

Karen Finley

Mark Rothko

Norman Rockwell

Pablo Picasso

Paul Cézanne   *

Paul Klee

Pierre-Auguste Renoir  

René Magritte

Robert Rauschenberg

Vincent Van Gogh

Wolf Kahn   *


 
   
20 Books

 

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris   *

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski   *

Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore

Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

Inspiration Sandwich by SARK

Long Quiet Highway by Natalie Goldberg   *

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Morning Poems by Robert Bly

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Plain Text by Nancy Mairs

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry   *

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer   *

The Stand by Stephen King

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

The Untouched Key by Alice Miller

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

 
 
 
20 Musicians:
    

Alexi Murdoch

Ani DiFranco

Bob Dylan    *

Cat Stevens

David Wilcox

James Taylor

Johnny Cash

Joni Mitchell

Keb' Mo'

Kasey Chambers

Leonard Cohen    *

Lucinda Williams

Lyle Lovett

Nanci Griffith    *

Neil Diamond    *

Paul Simon

Son Volt

Suzanne Vega

Tracy Chapman

Van Morrison    *

 
 
 
20 Movies:
  

Away We Go

Barfly

Big Fish

Black Snake Moan     *

Cast Away    *

Dead Man Walking    *

Defending Your Life

Elf

Gandhi

Harold and Maude     *

Holy Smoke!

Lost in Translation

Lovely and Amazing

My Own Private Idaho     *

Phenomenon

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

The Fisher King

The Jerk

The Station Agent

Where the Wild Things Are

   

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