Authentic Obsessions

Robin shares her life changing week at The Penland School, the importance of doing experiments to get to the truth, and the exhilaration of discovery and curiosity. Robin's lyrical, process-driven wo…

Takeaways

1. You can’t say yes to everything or everyone.

2. The more structure you add into your week the more flexibility you have.

3. We make HARD a problem, but it’s just part of life. Without the h…

Wanderlust, giving ourselves permission to do more than one thing and the inspiring non-fiction books that are holding our interest these days are just a few topics we chat about as we go down the be…

Takeaways

1. There is no overnight success. Everyone pays their dues, one way or another.

2. Every human being is unreliable in the way they tell stories.

3. Take pleasure in the striving aspect of the …

Takeaways

1. Take everyone seriously but yourself.
2. Making art is an extreme sport.
3. Do the thing you'd wonder about the most if you didn't do it.
4. If you can’t see a way to solve a problem you have to trust t…

Phoebe Gander is a landscape, abstract and still life painter, inspired by the beautiful ocean, skies and landscape where she lives with her family in Wainui Beach on the east coast of New Zealand. P…

Marissa Huber is an artist, connector, and creative instigator for the Carve Out Time for Art community and co-author of “The Motherhood of Art.” She works primarily in water-based mediums like gouac…

Liz Dexter is a mixed media artist and architect who spends her days finding beauty and joy in the imperfect, unfolding layers of our lives, and discovering awe and wonder in our midst. Liz develops …

Poppy Dodge is an abstract painter and a Color Maximalist who delights in creating harmony and balance using all the colors. Her work explores her obsession with stacking color and shapes and is infl…

Alison Watt has worked as a biologist on seabird colonies, an ecotour guide, has published a novel, a work of non-fiction and a book of poetry. She teaches painting online and in her studio on Protec…

Takeaways

1. "If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”  Joseph Campbell
2. Fin…

Takeaways

1. Sometimes it’s just not the season to follow through on the original plan.
2. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. It’s a continuous process – it’s those little leaps of faith that build upon e…

Takeaways

1. You don’t have to make anything, you can just explore. And if meaning comes out of that, great, but it doesn’t have to. 

2. We need to forgive ourselves for not being other artists than wh…

Takeaways

1. It takes a village to be creative even if the work is solitary.
2. Little tweaks to the environment can help you transition to the creative work.
3. Your identify is not in what you do, it’s in who …

Takeaways

1. Keep working, keep moving forward and eventually it all gets done. 

2. “The only rule is work.” Sister Mary Corita Kent

3. “Inspiration is for amateurs.” Chuck Close

Mentioned in this episod…

Takeaways

1. Try to be stronger than your shadows.

2. Give your art away.

3. Tilt your head and looks sideways.

4. Art is a way to always move forward and open yourself up to curiosity.

5. Success is gett…

Takeaways

1. Installation – within an exhibit space - is an art form in itself.

2. Entering a wooded area feels like a hug.

3. Reach out to someone who is different from you in language or color or heri…

Takeaways

1. “Food is edible love” Nicola’s mom.

2. Write a list of nice things you’d say to a friend and tell those to yourself.

3. Say “shut up” to your inner critic.

4. Celebrate where you are and be …

Takeaways

1. Be more forgiving of yourself for not meeting those impossible standards every single time.

2. Ask yourself: What do I authentically want to communicate and what is the best way for others…

Takeaways

1. My art table is my oxygen, my sanctuary, and the place I go to let my breath out.

2. If I can get out of the critical part of my mind and enter the deeper place it feels better in my body …