Art

Screenshot Monica Orozco Thaller Yorba Linda, CA Age 67 What keeps you excited in the studio?A blank drawing pad or canvas, a cup of hot coffee and smooth jazz music will transport me into ‘the zone’ of creativity and I just see where I go with it. Looking back at ...

Photo Credit Harry Gamboa Karen Atkinson Lone Pine, CA Age 68 What keeps you excited in the studio?It is a compulsion that never goes away, the need to make or work on something. I have never had a full studio until I moved out of Los Angeles after leaving my ...

Connie Rohman Los Angeles, CA Age 66 What keeps you excited in the studio?I love what I do, so just going into the studio makes me happy. If I’m inbetween projects, I’ll sort my fabrics or write in my journal to find inspiration. Just seeing my fabrics gets me excited. ...

Cheri Gaulke interviewing Lily Tomlin on the set of Acting Like Women, 2022. Photo by Jennifer A. Stuart. Cheri Gaulke Los Angeles, CA Age 70 What keeps you excited in the studio?Every day I dive deep into content and wrestle with how best to craft it into a form that ...

Anne Olsen Daub San Pedro, CA Age 67 What keeps you excited in the studio?Thoughts and ideas. Materials and possibilities. A deadline is good. Looking back at your trajectory as an artist, how would you say your work has developed? I have been making jewelry since childhood. My educational background ...

Carole Hatcher Rancho Mirage, CA Age 77 What keeps you excited in the studio?My vivid imagination for creating ways to use collected treasures and discarded objects to form unique new assemblage art. Looking back at your trajectory as an artist, how would you say your work has developed? My art ...

Laura Malone Oakland, CA Age 70 What keeps you excited in the studio?Chasing after what Catherine Bradford called “that one good painting.” Always trying to dig deeper, to reach the most essential. Knowing I will never reach it is strangely exciting, kind of like swimming toward the bottom of a ...

Tamara Tolkin CAAge 64 What keeps you excited in the studio?having all my mediums in one space and to know where they are that give me the freedom and the time to keep going Looking back at your trajectory as an artist, how would you say your work has developed? ...

James A. Faulkner Pasadena, CA Age 66 What keeps you excited in the studio?Ideas that come and inspiration that develops into a new art piece What role do you think the artist has in today’s society? It is our role as creatives to keep imagination and dreams alive! What’s the ...

Tom Lasley Studio City, CA Age 65 What keeps you excited in the studio?I begin a piece with only a few elements and a vague idea of what I intend to create. What keeps me engaged and excited are the unexpected, surprising additions and solutions that occur along the way ...