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Beloved Music

While I paint.

Music often accompanies me while I paint. These are some of the composers and musicians whose work makes me slow down, feel deeply, notice beauty, and sometimes see a painting differently.

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A violin, open score, and lilies beside an old piano
A botanical study of a lily in bloom

Music that changes how a painting looks.

A sprig marks a favorite — the pieces I reach for most often when the studio is quiet.

Hymns beside piano nocturnes. A choir beside a single violin. Beauty, in whatever form it arrives.

The Lamb of God

Rob Gardner

Night

Ludovico Einaudi

Riverside

Agnes Obel

Pathos

Ludovico Einaudi

Girl in the Mirror

Jennifer Thomas

Light of the World

Lauren Daigle

Hallelujah

Lucy Thomas

Night Prayer

Alec Roth

The Mummers’ Dance

Loreena McKennitt

Dante’s Prayer

Loreena McKennitt

Story of You

Fabrizio Paterlini

Hallelujah

Andrea Bocelli

Ends of the Earth

Lord Huron

Amazing Grace

Celtic Woman

Pie Jesu

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Turning Tables

Adele

The Fire Within

Jennifer Thomas

Piano only

The Renaissance Suite

Julie Cooper

Let It Be a Hallelujah

Lauren Daigle

Spiegel im Spiegel

Arvo Pärt

Bloom

The Paper Kites

Ubi Caritas

Ola Gjeilo

New Every Morning

Audrey Assad

Ave Maria

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Intermezzo

Johannes Brahms

The Pirate’s Gospel

Alela Diane

Nearer My God to Thee

The Piano Guys

You Say

Lauren Daigle

The Lark Ascending

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Underneath the Stars

Kate Rusby

The Lord’s Prayer

Andrea Bocelli · The Tabernacle Choir

Spiral

Ólafur Arnalds

Go Your Way

Julie Fowlis

Be One of an Ocean

Sophie Hutchings

Trojan Horses

Agnes Obel

O Magnum Mysterium

Morten Lauridsen · Choir of Merton College

Sleeping Lotus

Joep Beving

Butterflies

Kacey Musgraves

Esja

Hania Rani

Ophelia

The Lumineers

The Impossible Dream

Josh Groban

In Paradisum

Gabriel Fauré

From the Requiem

Peace, Peace, Be Still

Savior, Redeemer of My Soul

Dallyn Bayles · Jenny Oaks Baker

Consider the Lilies

Roger Hoffman · The Tabernacle Choir

Hymns

It Is Well with My Soul

Horatio Spafford

Amazing Grace

John Newton

All Creatures of Our God and King

St. Francis of Assisi

Work that makes me slow down, feel deeply, and notice beauty.