Where do you find your inspiration?

To be able to create you have to find inspiration whether it be other artists or the wonderful world around us. There are such fantastic colours in nature for example look at a sunset, how the hues change and darken. I
took out my polymer clay yesterday and found some inspiration in a pottery from Cornwall called Troika the simplicity of their designs inspired me to make this necklace, simplistic and geometrical and very different for me. I used Cernit stone effect clay

I have lived in Scotland for 4 years now and I wanted to create a piece of jewellery that in corporated a plaid. I tried really hard to get this right but the 'plans of mice and men' etc , it wasn't quite as I expected. I used a royal blue, dove grey and a dark green for this cane. The lines in the cane went a tad awry when I tried to reduce it but I still quite like the beads. Sorry Scotland :-(

The last two pieces came about when I had small amounts of the original clays left, so I made two floral brooches. the first was made with the stone effect clay and the second with the blue and dark green of the second necklace

I would love you to tell me what it is that inspires you!