Dale Niles art is influenced by the women in her life, her grandmother was a painter and her mother often did brightly colored tissue collages. Art has taken her through a variety of endeavors such as painting, sculpting, collages and more. What draws her to photography is the diversity she is given in this practice. It includes several of the art practices that she has done and puts them all in one place. Inspired by Niles heritage of growing up in small southern towns of the United States. She developed deep-seated southern roots that richly inform her photography practice with visual storytelling.