I’m a painter. I live on a remote island in the bahamas and use painting as a practice of worship. I’m surrounded by nature and I paint that
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I love it when I face a blank canvas w/out any ideas. I just start making marks, usually long curving lines that don’t stop. Lots of them. Then I just fill in the spaces the line made with different colors. Like when I was a kid coloring. When there’s been a lot of action on the canvas, I sit back and look for things in the painting. I usually have to turn the canvas different ways for it to tell me. Then, just go from there. I do paint from photos, but I like this process better.
Where do you find inspiration?The ocean. My garden. My honeybees. Sea creatures. Palm trees. Books. Extraordinary things I see. (I call those my magic beans and keep a list of them ) Rumi poetry. The moon. Conch shells. Seabirds. Little children’s faces.
What would you do with $25,000?Well that’s a good question. I definitely wouldn’t put it in the bank. We just finished paying off our debt, or I would have done that. I think I would fund a work permit here in the bahamas for my Haitian Gardner so he wouldn’t have to pay the people shaking him down for his “papers”. So he could live in peace. He does such a good job for me in my garden every week and hasn’t missed a Sunday in three years except when he went home to see his family. Other things too but not enough room to sa
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