Tag: Artist
In this Women in Arts Network interview, painter Renee Pupetz shares her path from Halifax’s art scene to rediscovering painting during one of the most challenging times of her life. She opens up about her love for nature-inspired work, the role of intuition in her process, and how painting became a daily anchor.
In this Women in Arts Network interview, Milwaukee-based painter Taylor Katzman, also known as Art Compulsions, talks about capturing the language of the body, balancing family life with studio work, and why she creates portraits that hold space for what isn’t always spoken. She shares her process, her materials, and the turning points that shaped her path from sketching in the margins to building a career in painting.
In conversation with our women in arts network, Morag Webster talks about the many directions her career has taken, from painting portraits to building film sets. She shares how her grandmother’s guidance and a lifelong curiosity led her to work in a wide range of mediums, and why nature remains central to her practice. Morag also opens up about balancing family life with her career, and what it means to create work that draws attention to both the beauty and the impact of human activity on the environment.
In this interview for the Women in Arts Network, Kira Bayliss talks about her journey from childhood creativity to wearable art. She shares how clothing can become a living canvas, why she collaborates with her mother, and how she balances her life as an artist, chef, and mother. Her story shows how fashion and art come together as a language of expression, storytelling, and connection.
From painting on roller skates to transforming everyday materials into works of art, Elena Schertler brings play, movement, and intuition to everything she creates. Growing up in the small village of Hittisau, Elena first discovered art through spontaneous moments of creativity with her cousin sewing, painting, and experimenting freely. Today, her practice blends painting, drawing, and mixed media, often incorporating threads, wax, and found objects to turn her canvases into tactile experiences. Her unique process sometimes literally in motion captures vitality, freedom, and the beauty of following intuition. Elena’s journey has…
In this interview for our Women in Arts Network, Catalan painter Isabel Juanico Termes shares how she returned to painting after years in medicine, why imagination drives her acrylic works, and how she balances life’s responsibilities with her creative ambitions. She opens up about the process of bringing her ideas to life, the importance of making time for art, and her hopes for the future of her practice.
In this conversation for the Women in Arts Network, multidisciplinary artist Marina Sholkova talks about moving between painting, ikebana, botanical sculpture, and illustration. She shares how a single symbol can grow into a finished work, what ikebana has taught her about space and balance, and how creating a 27-part story for Inktober shaped her practice.
In this Women in Arts Network interview, Belgian photographer Wendy Leyten shares how nature, symbolism, and mysticism shape her lens. She talks about finding silence before taking a picture, her choice to work without digital editing, and how Reiki guides her creative flow.
Final Call: 3 Days Remaining The door is closing soon. This is the last chance to be part of The Places We Call Home exhibition. Share your story, your creativity, your version of home before the opportunity slips away.
In this interview for the Women in Arts Network, painter Shakima Johnson shares how her career began by chance during the pandemic and how she continues to balance her life as both an artist and a scientist. She talks about her approach to abstraction and pointillism, the feeling she gets when a piece comes together, and why creating meaningful work matters most to her.