THE ARTISH PLUNGE PODCAST
Exploring The Curious Relationship Between Artists And The Other Jobs, Professions Or Experiences That Have Allowed Them To Plunge Into The Art They Create
The ARTish Plunge™ podcast explores the curious relationship between Artists and the other professions, day jobs, or past experiences that have allowed them to plunge into the art they create.
Join me, Kristy Darnell Battani, as I visit Artists from around the globe to explore how their experiences outside the art world have impacted their creative work.
The ARTish Plunge™ podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google podcasts and most other podcast platforms. But if you follow along here from the podcast cast website you get the added bonus of seeing images of the guest Artists’ work.
GERALDINE MACKINNON: botanical artist + handcrafted watercolors
Chilean watercolorist GERALDINE MACKINNON didn’t find her artistic direction in art school. Instead, the defining moment in her creative career occurred while assisting an archeological study on Easter Island, crawling through the caves with her sketchbook and headlamp trying to capture the “truth of the plants.” Fastforward, Geri has developed a sustainable career in the demanding practice of botanical watercolor illustration and in turn, her newest adventure: luscious, meticulously handcrafted mineral-based watercolors.
HUMBERTO RAMIREZ: multimedia artist + professor
The Artish Plunge explores the power of the arts as language with multimedia artist, curator and professor HUMBERTO RAMIREZ. Escaping the political turmoil in Chile of the 1970s, Humberto came to the US to study molecular biology before he pivoted to art. While his early paintings represented his social concerns, he shares how his current work reflects his surroundings and stage of life, using space, light and color to create contemplative botanical fantasies.
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