by Angel Ayala | May 14, 2025 | Inspiration
#106 HEIDI MARIE FAESSEL Heidi Marie Faessel is a remarkably versatile artist with an extensive range of creative skills. She is equally at ease using power tools as she is when working with a pencil, fabric dye, clay, or wire. Her exploration of these various...
by Angel Ayala | Feb 12, 2025 | Inspiration
#103 MARSHALL CROSSMAN Imagine working on a series for years! Imagine how much you’d learn about your subject and yourself. This process has stuck with Bay Area painter Marshall Crossman. Her series isn’t just five or ten paintings, but rather 250, in the...
by Angel Ayala | Jan 15, 2025 | Inspiration
#102 NICOLA BENNETT What do food and art have in common? Join Marji in an interview with Nicola Bennett to discover how to take a passion for food and local ingredients and apply it to canvas! Follow Nicola through her discovery process as she meets local farmers,...
by Nicholas Wilton | May 8, 2024 | Inspiration
#94 JOHN BUTTON Fresh, accessible, and friendly are feelings that come to mind when viewing the paintings by John Button. It’s no surprise that these words describe his character as well. There’s an ease, humility, and authenticity in how John describes his work and...
by Lori Lang | Nov 1, 2021 | Inspiration
#64 KYLE STAVER What does it look like to live an extraordinarily authentic life as an artist, woman, mother? Not everyone has this kind of steely determination, but Heather Chontos tells us how she did it in this inspirational interview with Susan Melrath. Highlights...
