KJ Hannah Greenburg and Yolanda Palis

KJ Hannah Greenburg and Yolanda Palis

Yolanda Palis Inspiration Piece Plucking By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Softly, like feathers falling from an unsullied carcass, Arbitrary, raspberry sentiments dislodge, plummet, once more while Catching a ticket to humanity’s vitrine …

 

Tori Lane and Marsha Staiger

Tori Lane and Marsha Staiger

Marsha Staiger Graft series,  CB Rake Acrylic mixed media on canvas Inspiration Piece Through Blinds By Tori Lane Response Gloves and snow covered jeans drip on the tile while I stare through crooked venetian …

 

Theresa Kulstad
and Caroline Davies

Theresa Kulstad
and Caroline Davies

Theresa Kulstad Collage on canvas 8 x 10 inches Response Blizzard By Caroline Davies Inspiration Piece Ice is tightening its grip. It wants the world all white. It remembers Mammoths their heavy tread making the …

 

Irene Plax and Amy Souza

Irene Plax and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Watercolor on mat board 4 x 4 inches Inspiration Piece Untitled By Irene Plax Response The baby fell in the water and his sister went in after him. She opened her …

 

Yolanda Palis and Brian MacDonald

Yolanda Palis and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Cinquain By Yolanda Palis Response Eating berries, apples– knife on gold encrusted plates for Dad and Mom, I recall famine. See larger image. Note: All of the art, writing, and music on …

 

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Annmarie Lockhart
and Bridget Fahey O’Brien

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Snowy Madison Avenue Inspiration Piece City Snowscape (Remembered) By Annmarie Lockhart Response That winter had to be the coldest up north we’d lived together, the only winter I could talk you into moving …

 

Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien
and Annmarie Lockhart

Bridget Fahey O’Brien Mano a Mano Response Birthday Gift By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece A sheet of white paper, a stretched white canvas series of silent scenes, fingers poised above ivory keys expecting the unwritten words, the …

 

Manny Beltran and Annmarie Lockhart

Manny Beltran and Annmarie Lockhart

Manny Beltran Eve’s Rib Response East of Eden By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration Piece I feel these miles of space between us as an ache in my heart just above and to the left of my still-sore rib, bruised from when …

 

Annmarie Lockhart and Manny Beltran

Annmarie Lockhart and Manny Beltran

Manny Beltran Sea Watcher Inspiration Piece Lost and at Sea By Annmarie Lockhart Response The waves bring in the tide and its relics, sea glass and starfish, the same way it took first you, …

 

Cara Mayo and Lisa Reutzel

Cara Mayo and Lisa Reutzel

Cara Mayo Watercolor Response White By Lisa Reutzel Inspiration Piece Whenever I think about my father, white is the color I remember.  Everything in that room was white.  White curtains, white …

 

Cara Mayo and Indrina Kanth

Cara Mayo and Indrina Kanth

Cara Mayo Watercolor Response Fire in the Sky By Indrina Kanth Inspiration Piece The space shuttle explodes while we’re waiting in the Planned Parenthood. Peter Jennings is conferencing a NASA engineer …

 

Chandra Garsson and J. Daniel Grant

Chandra Garsson and J. Daniel Grant

Chandra Garsson Ouroboros Oil on canvas, 33 x 27 inches Response I Am Happy for Now By J. Daniel Grant Inspiration Piece I told my roommate twice that I’m happy. Really happy. …

 

Jean Gordon and Brian MacDonald

Jean Gordon and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Picnic by the River By Jean Gordon Response Bread is spread with mustard Stuffed with ham and cheese Packed with drinks in a cooler And set on the backseat Meandering …

 

Sukia and Barbara Bever

Sukia and Barbara Bever

Sukia Response This I Know By Barbara Bever Inspiration Piece Stately oaks and maples cast cool shadows over the boulevard. Manicured hedges border the edges of well-mown lawns, embracing frame …

 

Peg Bruhn and Marge Amey

Peg Bruhn and Marge Amey

Peg Bruhn When It Is My Child Watercolor, 10 x 14 inches Response Perspective By Marge Amey Inspiration Piece It is 1968.  He is my husband.  He is a Marine Corps helicopter …

 

Matthew Taylor and Jay Smith

Matthew Taylor and Jay Smith

Watch on Vimeo.com. Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs to the person who created it. Copying or republishing anything you …

 

Indrina Kanth and Cara Mayo

Indrina Kanth and Cara Mayo

Cara Mayo In the Woods Inspiration Piece The Clearing By Indrina Kanth Response She met him in the wood when she was young, when she first moved to the house on …

 

Ray Sharp and Al Rudkin

Ray Sharp and Al Rudkin

Al Rudkin The Cobb (or The Sea Wall) Inspiration piece The Cobb By Ray Sharp Response How many times I have come down to the sea with an unquiet mind! From Lyme Regis, …

 

Al Rudkin and Ray Sharp

Al Rudkin and Ray Sharp

Al Rudkin Snow Angel Response Snow Angel By Ray Sharp Inspiration Piece Have you ever been mesmerized by snowflakes bright against the night like a billion white moths like pieces of the clouds kissing your …

 

Jim Tretick and Lisa Ventrella

Jim Tretick and Lisa Ventrella

JimTretick Response I received the inspirational piece from Lisa Ventrella. I interpreted the story as someone getting lost in artwork. I found this house and this church, …

 

Ashley Seitz Kramer and Rachel Morton

Ashley Seitz Kramer and Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton Hand-Built Clay Inspiration Piece Ashley Seitz Kramer Response FEVER/ISH …………for Ignaz Semmelweis, 1818-1865 He is with a patient now—a woman wet …with fever & flooding & there is blood & soon …

 

Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker

Charisse Cecil and Lizzie Parker

Charisse Cecil Unperceptive Glances Collage/Acrylic, 8 x 10 inches Response Surface By Lizzie Parker Inspiration Piece surface still is easy rolling off rain down paths of disciplined suffering toward release as bliss and attuned projecting unperceptive glances overlooking divided …

 

Amy Souza and Irene Plax

Amy Souza and Irene Plax

Amy Souza Untitled Acrylic and collage on canvas, 15 x 30 inches Response Untitled By Irene Plax Inspiration Piece Beneath the grey winter light from the enormous overhead window, Nadine felt many things …

 

Lauren B. Flax and Vita Sims

Lauren B. Flax and Vita Sims

Vita Sims Yellow Room at Balla Cragga Inspiration Piece Burning By Lauren B. Flax Response Piece The cool slats of wood under my feet as I rose from bed anchored me …

 

Jewel Beth Davis and Susan Kerr

Jewel Beth Davis and Susan Kerr

Susan Kerr Inspiration Piece Swimming Up By Jewel Beth Davis Response So it’s a dream? …….No, not a dream exactly. A vision? …….Maybe. No. I don’t know. I’m not asleep. It feels like …