I'm going to be spending time painting in the boonies next week. This doesn't happen when I work from ideas generated in other ways. Just sit for a while, calm down, breathe deeply, be thankful for life and that you have the faculty to do what you are about to do. Then, like a gentle or a forceful wind, let it flow. Doing things in a new way, in a new environment, with new people was really a challenge, The wind blowing over my easel and sun drying my colors almost instantly and burning my skin to a crisp is something I rarely deal with.
Nature is a wonderful teacher.
It's also true that they only experience what they are prepared to experience. Gauguin traveled and carried his own personal view of art wherever he went. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality. Gauguin is a central character in the progress of art.