Spring Thunderstorm Over Ravenseyrie East Bluff, Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island Ontario, Canada This blog entry was first published in the Journal of Ravenseyrie on June 4, 2016. The MOST important source of inspiration for painting ideas is our own lives... and what we like most. ( Jack Dickerson ) I have been influenced by paintings I have seen in books, and in museums, not because they defined success but because they suggested possibilities. ( Eleanor Blair ) Every day I wake up thankful to have made choices in life that make it possible to live here on Manitoulin Island. The dynamic elementals of our life on the Ravenseyrie Sorraia Mustang Preserve provide me with infinite inspiration all times of the year and catalyze creative ideas that number greater than my mind and body are capable of sustaining. The big sky, the roaming winds, the shifting colours and the indigenous flora and fauna - especially the horses - permeate my senses whether I a...