I find inspiration almost daily in often the most mundane of subjects, often the antiquated. Town and neighborhood street scenes with figures and/or animals, rich gardens, old buildings, landscape, stills, interiors and dream imagery. Somewhat obsessed with a utopian vision of village life I often see beauty that may or may not be there and is often reflected in my paintings. Though I am Jewish and very much feel so, I was not raised religiously; however I did hear stories and history on at least a weekly basis of life in the 'Shetl' (small rural Jewish villages in Eastern Europe) where my grandparents and family are from. Forming visual images as a child (which did not include the Pograms or Nazis) I now realize is emerging in much of my work.