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My mother has been a major inspiration for my creativity going back to my earliest memories . I remember when I was four years old in Belen , NM , I found some drawing pads with some pastel drawings in them . I asked my mother about them , and she told me that she had drawn them . I was fascinated . Up till that moment , this woman had only been my mother . Now she was an artist ! And she told me that I could do it to . S o I s t a r t e d d r a w i n g everything I saw with any pencil or crayon I could find , and to my amazement people recognized what I
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I am inspired by my patients every day . People are amazing in their resilience . I learn something important and enriching from every patient I see .
And so often Sherry is my greatest inspiration to make art . I introduced Sherry to the idea of becoming a professional artist . Now , I often I find myself just sitting in our art studio watching Sherry float into the Zen of her art process . It ’ s like I can feel the images in her mind by watching the movements of her body , and it makes me want to flow into my own art .