Send us a text September 2, 2025 Creative Contemplation S4E5 Lenny Campello; Artist, Gallerist & Curator Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast talks with Cuban born, American Artist, Gallerist & Curator-Lenny Campello. Lenny shares his journey to becoming the artist he is today in this engaging episode as well as discusses his largest curatorial project to date; a multi-venue Washington DC area survey show happening this Fall 2025 entitled "Women...
Send us a text August 19, 2025 Creative Contemplation S4E4 Jack Rasmussen; Director and Curator at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has an engaging conversation with one of the principal figures of the Washington DC arts scene for the past several decades--The Director and Curator at American University Museum, Jack Rasmussen. Jack and Suzanne discuss the history of the local arts scene, as well a...
Send us a text July 10, 2025 Creative Contemplation S4E3 James Lloyd; A Brush with Royalty Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a delightful conversation with British Portrait Painter, James Lloyd about his exceptional career painting portraits of some of England's most extraordinary individuals including Sir Paul Smith, Dame Maggie Smith and the late Queen herself, Elizabeth the II. Website: jameslloyd.org.uk Instagram: @james_lloyd_artist &...
Send us a text May 22, 2025 Creative Contemplation S4E2 Matt Klos; Perceptual Painter of Lived Environments Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a conversation with Baltimore M.D. based, perceptual painter, Matt Klos about his work and inspiration, his development as an artist and the various roles that he occupies as a creative professional. Website: mattklos.com Instagram: @mattklosspainting Yorkshire Dales, UK Workshop co-taught with Erin Raede...
Send us a text April 21, 2025 Creative Contemplation S4E1 Alex Cree; Painting with Imagination from Lived Experience Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast converses with British painter, Alex Cree about his training in observationally based, representational painting and how he broke away from a more traditionally realist approach in order to find his own true artistic voice. Website: alexcree.co.uk Instagram: @alexjcree Classes Galleries: Tregony Con...
Send us a text December 31st, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E10 Bryan Whitney; Photographing the Transcendent and the Unseen Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a fascinating conversation with NYC based photographer and artist, Bryan Whitney who specializes in alternative methods of imaging such as X-Rays, 3-D Imagery and Virtual Reality and uses them to explore subjects in our world that are both seen and unseen. Website: bryanwhitney.com x-rayp...
Send us a text December 17th, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E9 Rob Evans; Magic Realist Artist Elevating the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast interviews famed Magic Realist Artist, Rob Evans about his fantastic work and his amazing career which includes hanging alongside many of his own artistic idols. Website: robevansart.org Instagram: @robevansart Partial List of Artists Mentioned: Jerome Witkin Julio Larraz Chr...
Send us a text November 14th, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E8 Bethann Moran-Handzlik; Painting from Intuition, Memory and Observation Join Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation podcast for this deep and enlightening conversation with Wisconsin based painter, Bethann Moran-Handzlik on the subjects of intuition, memory and painting from observation. This is an episode that will stay with you and transform the way you think about painting. Website: bethannmoran....
Send us a text August 28, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E7 Erin Raedeke; Reimagined Memories Through Painting In S3E7 of the Creative Contemplation Podcast, host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a thoughtful conversation with Washington DC area painter, Erin Raedeke about her beginnings, her international career and the process and creation of her largely memory-based paintings. Website: erinraedeke.com Instagram: @erinraedeke Upcoming Classes Tregony Gallery, Cornwall, England Bio: ...
Send us a text July 30, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E6 Ferrier, Bishop & Van Dyke Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a light-hearted yet insightful conversation with three artists; Jodi Kolker Ferrier, Lindy Bishop and Rachael Van Dyke about their work, their interactions as both colleagues and friends and the artist residencies that they have participated in together. Are you a Creative that wants to broaden your horizons and travel? Then t...
Send us a text June 26, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E5 Kai Samuels-Davis Continued Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur continues her S3E4 conversation with American painter Kai Samuels-Davis about his journey to becoming an artist, his re-discovery of self and how in the process he discovered his own artistic voice. Kai describes in detail the inspiration behind his current body of work and his solo show "Emergence" at Ryan Graff Contemporary which r...
Send us a text May 29, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E4 Kai Samuels-Davis Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has an enlightening conversation with American painter Kai Samuels-Davis about his journey to becoming an artist, his re-discovery of self and how in the process he discovered his own artistic voice. Kai describes in detail the inspiration behind his current body of work and his solo show "Emergence" at Ryan Graff Contemporary. This mind-expand...
Send us a text May 13, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E3 Laura Smith Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a very special conversation with British painter Laura Smith about her work, her formative years and the extraordinary training she acquired with some of Britain's most beloved observational painters. This is truly an episode you don't want to miss! Website: laura-smith.com Instagram (Painting): laurajrsmith NEAC: Laura Smith Crean and Com...
Send us a text April 3, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E2 Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a delightful conversation with the Italian painter Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco about her painting and printmaking practices and the self-discovery she has gained from her work. Website: ilardt.com Instagram (Painting): @ilariardt Instagram (Printmaking): @ilaria.rdt_ink Bio: Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco initially trained as an illust...
Send us a text March 2, 2024 Creative Contemplation S3E1 Teresa Oaxaca Returns Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has an engaging conversation with her friend, the classical surrealist painter, Teresa Oaxaca. In this episode, Teresa and Suzanne discuss how to best align your life so that you are engaging in your creative practice as much as possible and making a living from it. Website: teresaoaxaca.com Instagram: @teresaoaxaca X (formerly Twitter):...
Send us a text December 22, 2023 Creative Contemplation S2E10 Stephen Copeland Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a fascinating conversation with writer Stephen Copeland about his latest memoir, In the House of the Rising Sounds published by Resource Publications, which explores the themes of "thin spaces" and the connection between spirituality and creativity which he discovered at the famed blues venue in Charlotte, NC - the Double Door Inn.&nbs...
Send us a text November 14, 2023 Creative Contemplation S2E9 Franklin White Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur reconnects with one of her most beloved Corcoran School of Art professors, the artist Franklin White. Suzanne and Franklin have a delightful conversation about his solo show, "Franklin White, An American in Venezuela" at the American University Museum, Katzen Center in Washington DC which is currently hanging until December 10th, 2023. Websi...
Send us a text October 20, 2023 Creative Contemplation S2E8 Victoria Browning Wyeth In this very special Halloween themed episode, Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur interviews Victoria Browning Wyeth, the only grandchild of the iconic American artist, Andrew Wyeth. Victoria generously discusses with Suzanne what it was like growing up in such a famous family of artists. She shares fond memories of both her grandfather Andrew and her Uncle...
Send us a text October 10, 2023 Creative Contemplation S2E7 Daniel Shadbolt Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur has an insightful conversation with British painter Daniel Shadbolt about his formation as an artist, his work and practice and his unending search for the subtle nuances of color and atmosphere in painting. Website: www.danielshadbolt.com Instagram: @daniel_shadbolt_painting New English Art Club: Daniel Shadbolt Bio: British painter Danie...
Send us a text August 31, 2023 Creative Contemplation S2E6 Dan Finaldi Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur interviews realist painter and arts educator, Daniel "Dan" Finaldi, about his work and life and his decades long friendship with two of his greatest mentors, Lois Dodd and Mel Leipzig. Website: www.danielfinaldi.com Instagram: @danfinaldi Bio: American painter Daniel "Dan" Finaldi, holds an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College where he studied wi...