Hello friends! I’m your host Angela de Burger, and incredibly, once again summer is here, which means that instead of welcoming a guest on this episode, it’s time for me to pose a classic Creative Pulse question to you:
What are your tips for starting up, or keeping up, the creative energy in your life?

To share a tip, you can:
- record a short voicemail from your phone or computer at speakpipe.com/CreativePulse 
- or you can send me a message or tag me in a post on Instagram @creativepulsepodcast 

I’ll share your tips on future episodes of the podcast and on social media so that your ideas can help other people who are looking for some creative inspiration!

This is also the time of year when there will be a short break in new episodes. I’m already pumped up about the interviews I have lined up and can’t wait to share them with you when new episodes start up again in September.

These next few weeks are a great time to catch up on any of the 129 episodes that have come out so far. Or perhaps there’s an episode that calls out to you for a re-listen - whatever works best for you, go for it! 

I also want to send out a heartfelt thank you to every single one of you - in over 3200 cities in 129 countries around the world - who tune into the Creative Pulse podcast! This show is my creative passion and it’s an absolute joy to connect with you over a topic that is so close to my heart.

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Tri Le is a pen and ink artist who weaves imagination into his art, creating light within an illogical world. His work often leans toward surrealism, intertwining both traditional and contemporary elements. Tri’s pieces often explore the perpetual conflict between opposing forces: love and hatred, pleasure and displeasure, past and present. He seeks to capture the tension and harmony between these dualities, examining how they influence and shape one another.

Building on a decade of experience teaching art courses and workshops, Tri is sharing his extensive knowledge in a new book, The Artist's Guide to Pen and Ink: Take Your Drawings to the Next Level with Gorgeous Shading Techniques, published by Page Street Publishing. It’s full of step-by-step directions and reference illustrations to guide aspiring and seasoned artists through the process of developing new skills.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Tri about his creative journey to becoming a skilled pen and ink artist, how he shifted from traditional artistic styles to surrealism, and how he shares his techniques through workshops and his new book.

Say hi to Tri:
  Website - trileart.com
  Instagram - @tri.shiba
  YouTube - @trileartist

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Kasia Muzyka is an intuitive artist and seeker of the sacred threads that weave life’s visible and invisible dimensions. She paints with coffee, wine and natural pigments to make the unseen visible and says her works are portals - expressions of remembrance, healing and communion with the heart.

She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and her most recent exhibition, in New York, is titled The Sacred Condition of Being. She is also the founder of Call2Love, a wearable art brand.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Kasia about what intuitive painting means to her, how she translates the unseen in her artworks, why she uses unorthodox art supplies, and the experience of preparing for her latest exhibition.

Say hi to Kasia:
  Instagram - @kasiamuzyka
  Website: kasiamuzyka.com
  Facebook - /kasiamuzykaArt

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Alexandria Masse works with textiles and fibres to construct wearable art and soft sculptures. She is fascinated by how a material can be manipulated and uses sewing, knitting and crochet to make both functional and fine art creations.

Alexandria’s works have been shown in two solo exhibitions as well as many group exhibitions all over Canada as well as in the United States, Portugal and Iceland, and she was selected as an artist-in-residence at Art Windsor-Essex. 

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Alexandria about how she develops her wearable art and soft sculpture designs, her experiences showing her work in gallery exhibitions, and why she loves being part of a global creative community.

Say hi to Alexandria:
  Instagram - @alexandria.masse
  TikTok- @alexandriamasse
  YouTube - @alexandria_masse
  Facebook - /alexandria.masse
  X - @massealexandria

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MAESTRO is a Spanish artist who divides his time between the eastern coast of Spain and the western coast of the United States. He studied, trained and developed a professional practice as an architect and designer before beginning his artistic career.

After immigrating to the United States, MAESTRO picked up a phone with a minimal data plan. The images on his screen often failed to load and he found himself intrigued by his own frustration. Over the following months, while working to rebuild his career as an architect in California, MAESTRO began to draw pixels, inspired by the not-quite-finished state of images he had been seeing on his phone.

Within months, he was accepted into the Santa Barbara Art Association and over the next three years he began to cultivate a loyal social media following and establish himself as a presence at respected art galleries. His first solo exhibition, “LOADING” recently opened at the HOMME Gallery in Washington D.C.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with MAESTRO about his creative journey, the contrast offered by his fine art drawings of half-rendered images, how he blends his skills as an architect and artist, and his first solo exhibition, “LOADING”.

Say hi to MAESTRO:
  Instagram - @yosoymaestro
  Website - yosoymaestro.com

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Louisa Deasey has been a professional writer for more than 20 years and her specialty is crafting memoirs. She says that true stories, well-told, have the power to change the world. In her captivating memoir, A Letter From Paris, Louisa shares how she received a message out of the blue from a stranger in France, telling her about a stack of letters written decades before about a man she hardly knew: her father.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Louisa about how writing helps her make sense of the world, why memoir writing is so close to her heart, and the compelling story she shared in A Letter from Paris.

Say hi to Louisa:
  Website - louisadeasey.com
  Instagram - @louisadeasey
  Facebook - /LouisaDeaseyauthor
  YouTube - @LouisaDeaseytv

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Simon Arizpe is an award-winning pop-up book designer, paper engineer and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a graduate of The Pratt Institute, has worked in the field of pop-up book design for over 20 years and was recently an artist-in-residence at Zion National Park.

He’s designed more than 35 pop-up books to date and works on every aspect of the process, from concept to publication. His book, Stranger Things: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book, is a #1 best seller, and the three dimensional pop-up spreads he created for the Keith Haring Pop-Up Book celebrate the artist’s iconic artwork. His innovative flexagon book, THE WiLD POPUP, allows the reader to interact with the story in a whole new way.

He received the Meggendorfer Prize, the highest honour in pop-up book design, as well as awards from the Society of Illustrators and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, and Columbia University’s rare book collection.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Simon about how he discovered the world of pop-up book design, balancing the creative and technical aspects of paper engineering, his inventive flexagon creations, and his experience being an artist-in-residence at Zion National Park.

Say hi to Simon:
  Website - simonarizpe.com
  Instagram - @simon.arizpe
  Zion National Park feature profile: Simon Arizpe: Artist in residence

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Sammie Aplin works in the healthcare field but a few years ago, in her free time, she began to do daily beach clean-ups in her community. She noticed there was a lot of plastic litter on the shore and wanted to do something about it, viewing this waste as a resource. Before long, her creative mind saw a way to give these items a second life in thought-provoking, eye-catching, structured, yet whimsical artworks.

Her pieces include colour-themed layouts made up of a wide variety of plastic trash that she’s collected over the years. If you look closely you will spot treasures such as plastic beach toys, bottle caps, charms, cutlery, jewellery, containers and packaging.

Through her creative artworks, she’s supported environmental conservation causes and recently won the People’s Choice award at an exhibition at the Sussex Contemporary Art Gallery.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Sammie about her passion for transforming beach trash into art, how beach clean-ups have positively impacted her mental health and well-being, and the supportive conservation and creative community she’s found. 

Say hi to Sammie:
  Instagram - @the_plastic_coast
  TikTok - @the_plastic_coast

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Laurence Winram is a talented land artist who makes his professional living as an award-winning commercial and fine art photographer. He spends his free time following his passion by creating land art in forests, on beaches and anywhere inspiration finds him.

He uses natural, found items such as leaves, flowers, sticks and stones, to create ephemeral works of art featuring geometric patterns, size progressions and tessellations that are absolutely captivating. Lucky for us, his photography skills come in handy so that his creations are captured and they can be enjoyed well beyond their natural life span.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Laurence about how he discovered his passion for creating nature-based land art, the unique aspects of working with found materials, and how he makes peace with the impermanence of his creations.

Say hi to Laurence:
  Instagram - @shapednature
  TikTok - @shapednature
  Facebook - /shapednature
  Websites:
    - Professional photography: commercial.lwinram.com
    - European Land Art Festival: elafest.wixsite.com/elaf/home

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Kristy Gordon is a Canadian-born artist living in New York City who is an accomplished painter, teacher and writer. Her work has been widely exhibited and her paintings hang in more than 600 collections worldwide.

She’s a three-time recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and has participated in residencies and apprenticeships in Italy, China, Norway and France. She’s now helping to develop the next generation of artists as an adjunct professor at the New York Academy of Art.

Her book, Become a Great Artist, was recently published by Page Street Publishing. The book begins by helping readers set a clear intention to make meaningful, authentic art, and then provides 13 weekly lessons with practical steps to transform a vision into a reality.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Kristy about her creative journey, how she reflects multi-layered storylines and contemporary themes in her paintings, and she shares sneak peeks from her book about finding the inspiration to create daily and finding your own creative voice.

Say hi to Kristy:
  Website: kristygordon.com and kristygordoncourses.com
  Instagram - @kristygordonart
  TikTok - @kristygordonart
  Facebook - @kristygordonIII
  YouTube - @KristyGordonArt

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