Art and Soul Radio

We announced on Art and Soul Radio yesterday we have found new co-hosts for Art and Soul Radio as we are being drawn into new creative directions in our lives. Lesley Riley and Glenny Densem-Moir are two savvy, creative entrepreneurial women and the brilliance behind Art and Soul Retreats. They are excited to be sharing their flavor of creativity on the radio show beginning June 21^st.  We’ll keep you posted during this transition time and want to introduce these gals now…

Lesley Riley is an internationally known art quilter and mixed-media artist with a passion for photos, color and the written word.  She has taught extensively in the US and as far away as Italy and Australia. Her art and articles have appeared in numerous publications and juried shows.  In her former position as Contributing Editor of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, Lesley showcased new talent in mixed media art.  Her first book, Quilted Memories, brought new ideas and techniques to quilting and preserving memories.  Lesley’s second book, Fabric Memory Books, combines fabric and innovative ideas with the art of bookmaking. She is currently working on yet another book for C&T Publishing.

Lesley has filmed instructional DVDs with Creative Catalyst Productions and Quilting Arts (available @ LesleyRiley.typepad.com) and also appeared on three episodes of Quilting Arts TV Season 1. With her art and her website Lesley aspires to inspire others to find their own voice and share in the magic that is art. She also has a growing specialty as an Artist Success™ expert, providing solutions for the struggling artist.

When not teaching, writing about or making art, Lesley, a Washington, DC native, loves spending time with her husband, 6 children and 6 granddaughters.

To learn more about Lesley go to www.LesleyRiley.com.

Glenny Densem-Moir has been a professional event organizer for over 25 years, producing her first small but astoundingly successful art retreat in 1998. She realized a growing need for artist retreats that not only offered professional instructors, but first class accommodations as well.  The first Art & Soul retreat was held 2003 in Portland, OR with 125 attendees and 16 instructors. Art & Soul has grown from the one Portland event in 2003 to four major events annually with each one attracting up to 600+ attendees choosing from classes taught by up to 61 instructors. A&S events are held annually in Portland and Hampton, Virginia and locations in between. The premier, sold-out, 2007 Pienza, Italy retreat attracted attendees from as far away as Australia, Norway and Scotland, as well as the US.

Art & Soul Retreats offers classes in paper, fabric, jewelry and fiber arts and are taught by internationally recognized instructors, bringing a wide variety of skills and artistic talent together in one location for your convenience! Participants choose from dozens of mixed media workshops designed to energize your creative spirit and reveal the secrets of your soul. Work and play with a multitude of media—from thrift store finds to tempered glass, vintage photos to polymer clay, beeswax to horsehair, fabrics to water colors and more. For more info, visit www.ArtandSoulretreat.com.

Glenny lives a country lifestyle on acreage in Oregon with her family and furry friends. You can read more about Glenny on her blog .

“You don’t have to leave your creative self behind to get your work in front of collectors, gallery dealers and art reps. Once you learn a few shortcuts, marketing your art is easier. If it’s easier, it’s more enjoyable.”

Aletta de Wal inspires fine artists to make a better living making art in any economy. Her business, Artist Career Training (A.C.T.) works with part-time, emerging and full-time artists who are serious about a career in fine arts. She is a member of the Artist Career Training Team and equal parts artist, educator and entrepreneur. As an Artist Advisor she makes art marketing easier and the business of art simpler through personal consultations, professionally designed educational programs and practical independent study.

Aletta has a successful track record of creating, producing and selling her own work, managing a studio-gallery and delivering entrepreneurial workshops. As a working artist, Aletta understands there is a fine balance to making art and handling your art business and with her diverse background, she helps artists to earn more money so that they can get back to creating more art.  Aletta will soon be sharing her expertise in her forthcoming book “My Real Job is Being an Artist: How to Make a Living Making Art ”

Monday, May 31^st at 4 pm PST on Art and Soul Radio, Aletta continues her series Exposure = Success as she discusses the importance of  Photographing  & Documenting Your Work. Aletta will share how strong images of your work are one of your most important marketing tools because 90% of your viewers may never see your art in person. Photographs of your art must be strong enough to accurately and beautifully represent you and your work. You invest your best in your art – why not in showing it off?

Painted by Joan Marie to Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens

“Exhilarated by music, I open the door to adventure and fearlessness. The energetic lines flow like automatic writing. The vibrant colors and movement capture the joys of life. This is the place of inspiration. This is the goal of my life as an artist.”

Ingenue by Joan Marie

Joan Marie’s art career began with inspired ethereal drawings. Within months, her drawings received national and international agency representation. Her work was licensed by several companies for 15 yea, gracing book and magazine covers, and purchased by hundreds of private collections throughout the world.

Recently, inspired by Picasso’s words–he paints with ‘the mind of a genius and the freedom of a child’–Joan Marie’s abstract “Music Paintings” emerged. As the music consumes her, inspiration fills her soul and colors appear in powerful bands of energy and mystical moments of beauty, balancing masculine and feminine energy. Her intuitive freedom draws on her classical fine art education, guiding the explosive energy that pours onto the canvas as she paints to exhilarating songs…capturing the joys of life. These new abstracts have been in two gallery shows within months of the first completed painting.

Joan Marie spent her formative years in Brooksville and Tampa, Florida. This led to a life-changing spiritual connection in Sedona, Arizona, followed by the high energy of Los Angeles, she returned home to St. Louis where her goal is to electrify and energize the viewer’s spirit with her new abstract paintings as intense, energized colors and wild motion takes you soaring, breathing in the air of freedom and vitality. Visit Joan Marie’s website to view more of her artwork.

Joan Marie joins us on Art and Soul Radio Monday, May 31^st at 4 pm PST to share the story of how her exciting new abstract art emerged.

“You can understand everything intellectually but if your heart isn’t coming along for the ride, you either won’t take action or the action you take will lack real energy and conviction.”

Mark Silver is a successful business consultant and healer and one of his gifts is bringing an active connection with the Divine into his work and helping you do the same. He openly shares his own failures and successes and his vision is for your heart to deepen into knowing your truth and with that knowing create a profitable and sustainable business aligned with your values and dreams.

I first heard Mark speak as a guest on a teleconference and was immediately impressed when he shared how abundance is different for each person—not everyone is meant to be a millionaire or have a big business but we can all create a successful business and make a difference when we know what abundance means to us personally. I was hooked. So, I’ve become more familiar with how Mark helps people from diverse backgrounds and business experience grow their businesses while staying in alignment with their values. I resonate more and more with his sincere heartfelt approach of the importance of including heart so you can thrive in your business spiritually and financially…and, I knew artists would benefit greatly from Mark’s heart-centered wisdom.

As an artist or entrepreneur—whether you’re just starting out in your business, wanting to put some fundamentals in place so you can make a living or your business is ready for its next level of growth, The Heart of Business offers solutions based on your core values and natural gifts and talents. Through business healing—the process of coming into a vibrant and healthy relationship with your business and for your business to have that same vibrant, healthy relationship in the marketplace— changes the game of business entirely. It’s a spiritual journey of your heart finding its way home to a foundation of certainty and love on which to base your knowledge and performance.

Art and Soul Radio is delighted to announce our first BONUS show as we interview Mark on Wednesday May 26^th at 1 pm PST. This is a terrific opportunity for you to call in and ask Mark questions you have about your business.  If you are not able to listen live and have a question, please submit them to sheryl@thrivalkits.com and you can listen to his answers on the replay.

True Bloom by Flora Bowley

Flora Bowley lives and works full-time as an artist in Portland, Oregon where she is inspired by magical forests, abundant gardens and a vibrant community of fellow artists. For the last 5 years, during the winter, Flora leaves the Northwest rain behind to find inspiration in colorful tropical locations. Flora finds getting out of her studio and painting in new locations opens up her creative flow as new images and colors emerge.  This winter, a dream come true happened for Flora as she fulfilled a ten year desire to paint in beautiful Bali.  A truly serendipitous unfolding of events led Flora to live her artist’s dream in Bali for almost 3 months!

Flora Bowley Luxurium

Flora’s  paintings are bold, colorful and rich, thoughtful, delicate and playful. Her artwork is created through a uniqueprocess of spontaneously layering free flowing color and mark-making with carefully rendered organic forms. These ‘characters’–wings, sprouts, hives, branches, petals and pods co-mingle with vibrant color fields to tell stories of magical places born of dreams, imagination and a deep connection to all living things. Flora’s large works on canvas and smaller works on bamboo are easily recognized and admired by galleries and art lovers across the U.S. Flora continually blends her passion for art, her years of yoga teaching experience and her love of people into her brand new workshops.  Flora is excited to be teaching at Squam Art Workshops in New Hampshire this fall.

Deep Peace by Flora Bowley

We invite you to tune in to Art and Soul Radio Monday, May 24th  as Flora shares how she ended up in Bali, what she learned during her months there and how her creative process unfolded.  To see more of Flora’s artwork,  click here.

Artist and Artpreneur Gayle Rappaport-Weiland

Gayle Rappaport

“Believe in yourself, get the word out, show your style, coordinate your steps and repeat often.”

Following her creative callings, Gayle Rappaport-Weiland brings originality, enthusiasm and heart to her paintings and her life. Using rule-breaking techniques setting her apart from the crowd, she creates beautiful impressionistic works, using watercolor and watercolor mixed with rice paper collage expressing shades of mood and feeling throughout her work. Gayle’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries and personal exhibitions throughout the western United States and are shown in a variety of galleries located throughout California.

Gayle’s qualifications and expertise, both as an artist and a talented teacher of adults and children, are widely recognized and respected as her professionalism coupled with contagious excitement, ensures her students and art clients receive a successful and positive art experience.

Pair of Iris by Gayle R

Recognizing diverse income streams help artists to thrive, Gayle uses her many talents as an artist and artpreneur. She has several limited edition prints, a greeting card line, commissioned works and is teaching art and art business classes. An artist who believes in giving back, one of Gayle’s gifts is teaching artists they don’t have to fall into the ‘starving artist’ trap with her Business of Art class. She also involves herself in the local art, education and the business communities. Learn more about Gayle at www.grappaport.com

Gayle’s enthusiasm and passion for the Business of Art was noticed by Aletta de Wal, Artist Advisor at Artist Career Training. Aletta invited Gayle as a guest to share her expertise and experiences in The Business of Art. To read or hear the interview go to http://www.artistcareertraining.com/act-art-marketing-blog/

Window to the World

Art and Soul Radio welcomes Gayle as a guest on Monday, May 17^th at 4 pm PST to share how she is creating success as an artist by focusing on the business of art and diverse income streams. www.blogtalkradio.com/art-and-soul-radio

Diving into Pondering Pool with Susan Mrosek

Leap of Faith

Taking a dip into Susan Mroseks’ Pondering Pool is a whimsical journey into wisdom, truth and laughter. The illustrations and ponderings on her cards, posters and book capture the essence of women’s emotional challenges and celebrations. Susan readily admits she grew up in a dysfunctional family and laughing through dysfunction and journaling about pain in a funny way was how she coped. Her creativity emerges from a wellspring of emotions and her Muses.

Susan Mrosek Mind Image

Always creative, Susan began drawing at 18 years, was a potter for 10 years and did a little sculpting. She went to a painting class–‘Art Skills for Self-Discovery’ and began painting but didn’t pick up her pen until 11 years ago. She also began to illustrate and pondered if anyone else would ‘get’ her cards or think they were funny. She began marketing them herself and Pondering Pool has had a momentum of its own ever since.

Susan creates in her small, comfortable studio space cocooned by her ‘people’ and paintings in Tucson, Arizona. She loves having some part of the human body in everything she paints–particularly elongated limbs and surrealism. She did portrait painting for awhile but was soon bored with commissions and trying to please people by painting SW images. Susan loves her characters calling to her to be born and are a surprise to her too!

She’s gotten back into working with clay the last couple of years bringing her characters to life in 3-D. She’s also considering animation for her ‘village of characters’ as they all have something to say! She is currently preparing a mixed media workshop for a behavioral health agency with a major emphasis on Playing. Enjoy Susan’s cards, posters and book at  www.ponderingpool.com

Tatters by Susan Mrosek

Art and Soul Radio is delighted to have Susan as a guest on our show, Monday May 17^th at 4 pm PST www.blogtalkradio.com/art-and-soul-radio

Tammy Vitale Women, Art and Life…Weaving It All Together

Tammy Vitale

Tammy Vitale artist and art business coach believes with all her heart that everything is connected and anything is possible.  Her creative passions include clay, bead working, and lamp work in the studio and making a safe place for women to AmpUp and Live Out Loud outside the studio!

Dedicated to celebrating women, Tammy created the Wylde Women Award which been around the world since it first was sent out in July of 2008. The purpose of the award is to send love and acknowledgement to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy. She believes inside every woman is the wylde child she was both born as and returns to as a crone who has rediscovered her childlike self.  The journey in between is called life.  There is no dress rehearsal.  Tammy wonders…what might happen if we opened to learning the rules of protecting that wild place first, and then brought those rules in the material world – how would it change our expectations and actions? You can learn more about the Wylde Women award at http://tammyvitale.com/wylde-women-award/

Discovering Grace by Tammy Vitale

Tammy’s artwork includes her Goddesses and Gods–unique, one of a kind handmade ceramic wall sculptures, jewelry and paintings. When not in the studio creating, she is sharing her many years of expertise gleaned as an artist teaching other artists how to be more successful. Her new online course ‘Sell Your Art, Keep Your Soul’ debuts May 24-28^th http://www.SellYourArtKeepYourSoul.com)

In this on-line e-course, jammed packed with first-hand experiences and tried and true techniques, you will learn:

• Who’s buying your art and where to find them.
• How to confidently set your price and sell your art.
• Why packaging and presentation can’t be ignored.
• Where to find more time to make your art.
• And Much Much MORE!

Tammy joins us Monday, May 10^th on Art and Soul Radio to share her expertise on pricing and also discuss how artists can create multiple streams of income. We invite you to join us http://www.blogtalkradio.com/art-and-soul-radio Learn more about Tammy at www.tammyvitale.com and get Tammy’s free report from her Artists Survey… http://tammyvitale.com/workshopsretreats/artist-survey-the-business-of-art/

Wylde Woman by Tammuy Vitale

Through the Fire with Satya Winkelman

“It has been a passion of mine to help awaken women to their full potential and throughout my career I have been encouraging them to do so. It’s seems more important now than ever before! We no longer can look outside for authorities to heal our ills. Each of us must look within to hear our own feminine voice of compassion and emotional expression and learn how to nurture ourselves”.

For nearly 30 years Satya Winkelman has been working as a change agent for women and now shares her unique five-stage process in Through the Fire: A Woman’s Guide to Transformation. Using images of her own sensuous artwork, she takes the reader through the steps on the path to greater authenticity and a higher state of consciousness.

Through the Fire by Satya W.

Satya has been a communication and effectiveness trainer and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, schools, churches and businesses in the USA, Canada, and Europe for over 25 years. She has designed and facilitated hundreds of Wise Woman Workshops, and was the creator and director of Personal Growth Theatre, an improv troupe of professional mental health workers teaching communication and relationship skills as well as the host of a live TV talk show, Mental Health Matters.

Through the Fire: A Woman’s Guide to Transformation takes the reader on a journey into the feminine cycles of change. It is a unique and humorous guide written for women who question their lives and yearn for more balance, confidence, and fulfillment.  As the pages turn, one enters the phases and stages of emotions, thoughts and behaviors that shape women’s lives and guides them to their own inner Wise Woman. The book encourages women to:

• Learn where you fit on your journey of transformation
• Gain clarity and self-awareness
• Discover which outdated beliefs have kept you “stuck”
• Formulate new perspectives and ideas to move you forward
• Balance your masculine and feminine energies
• Birth your Authentic Self
• Create your most precious work of art…Yourself!

The book also includes self-help, workbook-style exercises at the end of each stage of transformation providing clarity and insight into individual belief systems which effect personal growth guiding women to greater authenticity, clarity and direction.

Today, Satya continues to teach com-munication for couples and facilitate women’s personal growth groups as she works, sculpts, and plays in Sarasota, Florida.

Find out more about Satya at http://guidetotransformation.com/index.html She joins us Monday, May 10^th on Art and Soul Radio to discuss her passion for helping women birth their greatness. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/art-and-soul-radio