Author: Michelle Quick
You write as well as make art. (Eleven books!) How does your creativity interact with different mediums and forms of expression? In other words, how does your writing inspire, influence, or engage with your art and vice versa? I am a self-taught artist, so my path is not typical. I started writing when I […]
An Interview with Featured Artist, Emma Anna, by Michelle Quick, Art Editor Your biography mentions working on a book about mushrooms. Tell us a bit about this project. I recently worked as a producer on a mushroom project in Australia that combined various art, degustation, and mushroom education offshoots. It was through this project […]
PIn your artist statement, you wrote, “painting is the language I needed when words failed” and that your motivation behind being an artist is to “continually make stabs at communication to engage in social discourse.” Talk a little about how visual art can be a language. How do you think it can initiate and respond […]
“My paintings…invite the view to interact with the works on their own terms, based on the encounters, memories or experiences…promoting a sense of shared humanity,” Fernanda Morales Tovar, Issue 73 Featured Artist One of the first things I noticed about this series is that while the setting in these paintings may be crucial to […]