The Temecula Valley Museum has changing exhibits whose content keeps calling me back.

According to Mr. Ohno's artist statement, "I find inspiration from a variety of different artists such as Alphonse Mucha, Hiroshige (Ukiyo-e artist), Gian Lorenzo Bernini, John Singer Sargent, Nicolai Fechin and Abbott Henderson Thayer.

While working on a new project, I hope to discover something new in the process, technically or thematically. When it happens, I try to incorporate that new discovery into that artwork. It does not happen often, but when it happens, it gives me extra fun and motivation."

Born into a rice growing family in a small Japanese town, Mr. Ohno moved to the United States in the early 1980s, and studied book illustration and graphic art at art school, learning human anatomy and perspective drawing, and how to create illustrations in the tradition of Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, and Norman Rockwell.