Dear Artists

Poppy Dodge is an abstract painter and founding member of Creative Shift Circle.

In this interview Poppy talked about her art journey, her current project, and how the circle has been supporting and inspiring her.

You can sign up to join Creative Shift Circle waiting list here

Ange Miller is an artist and mother based in Australia. She is an advocate of making art from the deepest part of your heart. In this interview we talked about her art journey, how she found Intuitive Soul Art, and most importantly “the one thing” that she would like to share with the art community.Show Notes:To sign up for Creative Shift Circle waiting list, visit www.amatayastudio.com

Lauren Mckenzie-Noel creates a vast variety of work that focus’s on diversity and bridging her two halves on her walk with identity in being both black and white. New to Cleveland coming from West Palm Beach Florida Lauren spends most of her time either in her studio or working on murals in her community. Creating conversations around identity, race, and womanhood. Most of Lauren’s work features portraits of either Individuals she has met in her own personal walk as an artist or is derived from her own imagination and a melting pot of faces. Using an array of materials as well as color to highlight the beauty of people of color in her life.

Grace Sangat Gian is an artist and yoga teacher living in Chicago.I invited her to the interview to share the basics of Kundalini Yoga and how this practice can be applied for artists.

Katherine Corden is a part-time physical therapist and part-time artist currently living in Madison, WI.

Katherine loves helping people and find the human body fascinating, which is partly why many of her paintings focus on the human figure. She tries to capture the imperfect beauty of nature, humans and social interaction in her work, to evoke nostalgia and comfort.

Sara Connell is an author and writing coach. Her first book “Bringing in Finn” is a beautiful personal story about how she, her husband, and her 61 year-old mother brought her son Finn into this world through surrogacy. That first book has opened the door to so many opportunities, including being on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, and NPR. I had the pleasure to know Finn, Sara and her husband so I’m very excited to have Sara here to share her transformational story.

Melissa Parke Rousseau is an Artist + Herbalist.  Her work is an exploration and visual storytelling in celebration of fluidity + movement, our earth, sun, + moon, the elements of air + water, our sky in the morning, our sky at night, the cosmos, and the powerful duality of the divine feminine grace + strength

She lives in Joshua Tree, CA with her love Sie and their pups Yula + Chaga.

Tiffany Wong is a visual artist and advocate living in Chicago.

In this episode we talked about

Her artist journey

Her biggest mindset shift: finding a cause she is incredibly passionate about and express that through her art

Her experience seeing a therapist and how it has made an impact on her

Meredith Bullock is a painter, coach, teacher and leader living in Nashville, Tennessee.

Most currently, she took a 10-month break from painting and connecting on social media to simply just be with her family. During that break, she flowed into writing and after her social media break was over, she finished the first draft of her book, The Brave Map.

Liz Flores is a Chicago based artist and muralist, painting the human form through shapes and colors. Four years ago she made the leap from corporate America into the art world. Her work explores the human condition, the female form, and how emotion can be represented through movement and shape.