A painter gravitates to the environmental influences around him. The Florida landscape has stronginfluences. Arriving in the mid summer heat, one first notices strong cloud and storm formations that usuallystart to develop late in the afternoon, with majestic sunsets and the perpetual motion of the waves on the beach. Before long the grasses, the swaying palms and the moving water appear somewhere on the canvas.One also can not ignore the birds and their elegant gait or the spread of their feathers as they land on a lofty nest high above the beach. There is also serenity and peace and quite. Florida has the whole spectrum. It provides endless inspiration to a painter.