"The sheer beauty of color and form in nature are my inspiration, as well as the successes of other artists. The fine hairs on Jim Dine's paintbrush etchings, the sheer joy of Rothko's colors, the purity of a Luis Barrigan wall of color. I love the simplicity and realness of a feather, it's overwhelming color, and the rationality of its construction and the freedom and moving grace of it's vital form." - Mary Jo McConnell