Pamela Twigg
Pamela is an executive coach using Archetypes as a way to help people and businesses, focus on self-awareness and ultimately learn how these insights can help them be successful. This episode has a lot of information, and in general just a great conversation.
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Hilmar Gottesthal
This week we are lucky enough to highlight Hilmar Gottesthal check out his studio click the link below for more details Artist Studio Tour
Hilmar currently is the featured artist at The Ferlman Gallery, you can check out his work
Artist and sculptor Hilmar Udo Fister Gottesthal was born on Christmas Eve 1942 in Carinthia, Austria. He studied at the “University of Vienna” and the “Vienna Academy of Fine Arts” where he graduated in 1966 winning the two highest art awards. He partially restored the Neo-Gothic Votive Church in Vienna before his interest in Byzantine art took him to Greece and Turkey where he spent 30 years painting and sculpting as well as capturing the ancient ruins, myths, and religious icons.
He arrived in Istanbul in 1966 having received an Austrian-Turkish Cultural Exchange Grant. His earliest One Man Shows were at the Istanbul City Gallery, the State Museum for Painting and Sculpture, the American Robert College and American Cultural Institute. It was there in 1968 that Nancy Hanks, later Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts discovered and invited Gottesthal to his first American showing in Rockefeller Center, New York.
In 1972 he moved to Greece following an exhibition in Athens. It was here that he first developed his own Sepia made from squid and produced Black and White drawings which drew international attention. In 1978 he was an “Artist in Residence” for Berkeley School For The Arts for four months painting archaeological sites around Oaxaca, Mexico and in the provinces of Tabasco, Chiapas, and Yucatan. The resulting works were shown at the Governor’s Palace in Oaxaca.
Back in Greece Gottesthal continued to develop his own style, painting with oil and watercolors works which often contained spiritual elements using his complex pointillist and sometimes mosaic-like style. He painted murals in the Bell Tower Chapel of a Greek Orthodox Church in Karitsa near Mount Olympus and restored two Byzantine chapels working with American art students in a summer internship program on Mount Kissavos.
In 1986 he moved back to Turkey where he recorded the nautical archaeological recovery and finds of the 11th century Byzantine shipwreck at Serce Harbor. These works are on permanent display along with the artifacts at the Bodrum Nautical Archaeological Museum. The artist then conceived and executed an enormous Plane Tree sculpture measuring 22’ x 12’ x 8’ that was donated to the Hasanbaba Forestry Recreational Park, “To The Children of the World” as a climbing sculpture. During those same years he exhibited in London, Paris, Hamburg and returned to the United States for exhibitions in Winnetka on the North Shore and at the Gruen Gallery in Chicago.
In 1993 before leaving Europe to make his home in the USA he celebrated a 25 years retrospect in Ankara at the Turkish National Museum and was awarded a medal for his cultural contribution to Turkey. In 1995 he started a Fine Arts Program with the International Summer Music Courses in St. Paul, Austria. In 1998 he accepted a commission for 26 Stained Glass windows for Priestfield Pastoral Center in West Virginia which included 15 Stations of the Cross, two large circular windows and a 6’ x 6’ map of W. V. in Stained Glass. Since completing this project he issued his first U.S. print and held exhibitions in London, England, St. Paul, Austria, Dorset, England, The Wachau, Austria and several locations in the U.S. He was invited to the White House’s 2002 artist’s reception for the Stained Glass Christmas Ornament he made for the National Tree which has become part of their permanent collection. In May 2003 he completed a 9’ by 12’ stained glass for a United Methodist church. Then in January 2007 Maryland Public Television featured him on “Artworks This Week” and he had a packed exhibition opening reception at the Saville Gallery in 2008.
Gottesthal now a US citizen resides with his photographer wife Penny Knobel-Besa in Western Maryland on a mountain top across from his woodland gallery, “Sanctuary Studios”. They both had exhibitions in Vienna, Austria in June 2012 and celebrated the completion of his Sanctuary Sculpture Field including two 18 foot wood sculptures and stone works in June 2013.
Patricia Hilton
Pat is making her 2nd apperence on the podcast, after hitting the mics almost 10 years ago, this its personal.
Over the past several years, she has painted en plein air along with working in my studio. She appreciates the focus and presence required to paint on site and have worked to bring the liveliness of plein air to her studio work.
Patricia Hilton received her BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and MFA from Indiana State University. Since then, she has participated in group, two-person, and one-person shows in Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
She is excited to welcome everyone to her studio space during the Artist Studio tour in October!
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Mike Thompson
He's BACK!!!
We were so excited to have Mike back for season 9, Mike is of course going to be featured on the Artist Studio Tour this year and serving up delicious piping hot soup and other snacks to entice you to visit... but this episode we dive into the artist psyche a bit and what it might feel like when you finish a large project or any project and the dreaded "What's Next" question comes up.
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Mike's Website: http://www.michaelhunterthompson.com
Andrea Moore
Andrea hits the mics in this great episode, she started out in Tucson AZ, and made her way to our wonderful Arts community. Specailizing in Art in acrylic, oil pastel, watercolor, giclee, and digital photographs. Andrea has the educational chops to back up her skills and even went to nursing school and plays in the local band the Slice Girls. Andrea strongly beleives that art is therapy and something everyone can do. She will be showing with Shelia Wade in Pinto Maryland during the Artist Studio Tour this October.
Pat & George
Pat and George join us for a great chat about their art, including painting, photography, and sculpture. Their art is featured all over Western Maryland, with George's sculptures being enjoyed by visitors to Locust Post Brewery, where they will display their art this coming October for the Artist Studio Tour.
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Frank Asher
Frank is making his RTL debut, and how his deep connection to nature inspires his art. What started with a simple planter in Dupont Circle blossomed into a successful landscaping business in D.C., creating moments of peace and connection in an urban landscape. At age 62, Frank decided it was time for something different. He hired a life coach, set goals, and actively moved toward what he wanted to do in his next chapter, which included writing a book (link below). This artist-author creates one fantastic listen.
Frank is making his RTL debut, and his deep connection to nature inspires his art. What started with a simple planter in Dupont Circle blossomed into a successful landscaping business in D.C., creating moments of peace and connection in an urban landscape. At age 62, Frank decided it was time for something different. He hired a life coach, set goals, and actively moved toward what he wanted to do in his next chapter, which included writing a book (link below). This artist-author creates one fantastic listen.
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