LIVE from Plein Air Easton 2024, Tim and Jess talk with alumni artist Mark Shasha. Mark is an interdisplenary artist that, beyond painting, also plays music and acts. He discusses his relationship with terror and how it fuels all of his artistic pursuits.

"Painting is a calling for me. It is a longing for those moments when the poetry happens when a sun beam caresses a snowbank, peeks into a glade or spills diamonds across the sea. I'm compelled by something deep in me to seize that energy and to express it as paint on canvas using my own calligraphy and the brevity of a few accurate brushstrokes. My reward is to have the viewer linger, to understand, to share as the canvas evokes and conveys a glimmer of that sublime natural beauty all around us."

Mark Shasha (b. 1961) is an award-winning American artist, author and educator. His work has appeared in museums, galleries and publications for 40 years. His paintings are found in public and private collections around the world. And millions have read his children's books which he has written and illustrated. After college at Rhode Island School of Design in 1983 Shasha was a frequent illustrator for the Boston Phoenix, The Globe and many other publications. His first children's book, Night of the Moonjellies (Simon & Schuster, 1992) won a Marion Vannett Ridgway Honor Award and was welcomed by Smithsonian Magazine as "a classic." It continues to appear on bestseller lists.

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Music in this episode was generously provided by Blue Dot Sessions and Scott Gratton.