Dear Artists

Rose Candela is a mother, trained art historian, artist, and coach to women who want to cultivate love and acceptance for themselves on their creative path. She believes your life has a unique rhythm and accepting that is the way to inner peace. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband and son.

Kaylan is an artist living and working in rural Tennessee. An avid gardener and dedicated locavore, she tends a flock of chickens with her Great Pyrenees, Gesso, and enjoys watching birds, reading books and drinking her husband's home brewed kombucha or beer in their historic house.

Kaylan paints about the painful and joyful perspective of mothering, using abstraction as a framework for processing the complexities of her identity as a mother & artist.

Kayla is a self-taught artist and mother living and working from her studio home in the quiet prairies of Canada. Much of her art is inspired by the psychological and emotional influences of being a mother. She seeks to embrace and communicate peace, self-acceptance, beauty, and sometimes struggle through her figure line drawings about motherhood, sisterhood, and womanhood. Her paintings observe and explore the relationship of spaces and one’s emotional well-being.

In this Episode we’re talking with Carolina Gruner. Carolina is a self-taught intuitive oil painter from Finland, currently living in New Zealand and about to move back to Finland!

She is an advocate of “trusting your intuition” and “following your heart” and her life is living proof of what she believes.

Amanda is a painter and teacher living in Evanston. Amanda’s superpower is that she can teach anyone to paint flowers!

“My biggest shift is my daily practice. There’s a concept that if you make art everyday it stops being about you trying to make it look like something. If you make it everyday and start listening to your art, your art will start talking to you. It will tell you how it wants to be.”