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The Art of Creation: Awakening With the Eyes of Nature—The Art of Susan Cohen Thompson

The Art of Creation: Awakening With the Eyes of Nature—The Art of Susan Cohen Thompson

August 17, 2023 - Today, Circlewood friend and guest writer Elaine Breckenridge shares the work of Camano Island artist and neighbor Susan Cohen Thompson. Along with the art itself, Elaine shares how it has influenced her own understanding of the world around her. By Elaine Breckenridge

The Art of Creation: A Different Way of Doing Art

The Art of Creation: A Different Way of Doing Art

July 27, 2023 - Young artist Eden Overland shares some of the art she has created from natural materials she has found growing or fallen onto the ground around her. By Louise Conner

The Art of Creation: Weaving Innovation into Tradition

The Art of Creation: Weaving Innovation into Tradition

June 28, 2023 - Tanabe Chikuunsai IV's most well-known works catch one's attention, but his sculptures are not stand-alone tributes to one person's creativity and skill. They are rooted deeply in tradition, community, and the earth itself. By Louise Conner

The Art of Creation: Starry Nights

The Art of Creation: Starry Nights

June 22, 2023 - The night sky has guided humans and animals in their travels, created healthy rhythms of rest and work, and has invited humans (including artists)to reflect on their place in a vast universe. By Louise Conner

The Art of Creation: Capturing Movement within Clay

The Art of Creation: Capturing Movement within Clay

June 15, 2023 —Jennifer McCurdy draws on the forms and shapes of nature—translating spirals and fractals, seaweed and flowers into vessels that evoke their source in such a way that the viewer sees into the heart of something beautiful and living. By Louise Conner

The Art of Creation: Shared Knowledge

The Art of Creation: Shared Knowledge

May 4, 2023 - Through his work as a birch bark canoe maker, Wayne Valliere ties past, present, and future together, water and land, new generations and old traditions. By Louise Conner

The Art of Creation: Delicate Work

The Art of Creation: Delicate Work

April 20, 2023 - Pippa Dyrlaga is a Yorkshire, England-based artist who, with a piece of paper, a drawing instrument, and a precision knife as her only raw materials, creates an imaginative world of creatures and places that evokes awe toward the natural world. By Louise Conner