Eye of An Artist

* beautiful style from flickr member KayLovesVintage 

Is it possible to train one's inner eye?

I am very good at recognizing true beauty when I stumble upon it; however, I'm not good at visualizing what I should look for before setting out to find it.

Which is why instead of creating my own style, I've stolen bits and pieces from those of others.  I'm done pilfering - I want my own.

I want to be an artist and craft a beautiful world in which to live.

I want to turn abstraction into concreteness; I want to toy with the beauty that comes from within instead manipulating that which belongs to others.

*Early 20th Century family quilt




I want to find inspiration rooted in the faded quilts

of my Pennsylvania Deutsche heritage

and

couple it with an Alpine sensibility

inherited from Swiss Anabaptists.

*View from Isle Ornsay, Isle of Skye, Scotland

I want my Scottishness to manifest my ardor for unrestricted views and shades of the sea:
white, green and blue.

Skye is me; I am Skye.

Although one won't find tartan-covered

soft furnishings in my home,

it's obvious its the seat of a devoted clan.