I've been listening to Wynton Marsalis' show on XM Radio's Real Jazz channel, and it's really great to hear the live jazz and interviews with the musicians. It offers insight into the creative process and how a piece ends up going where it does. I love the combination of intellectual and visceral that ultimately makes a great jazz piece.

I always come back to jazz when I try to explain how I create my art. There's a basic theme I may start with. The theme may revolve around color, composition, a particular mark or shape, a concept or a feeling. I develop variations on that theme as I build with color, texture and marks. While I'm working on a piece I really do get lost in it, and the process of making the art is like making music to me. And when the music is finally finished I have my own record of the process - the actual piece of art. And that's really what my monoprints are - records of a jam session where I played all the instruments.