Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Write & Create program / OCTOBER 2022<br />
Susan Hogan<br />
USA<br />
About<br />
I am interested in intersections and connections. I write, draw,<br />
paint, sculpt and perform on occasion with an improv group.<br />
Writing was my first art-love, and I am returning to it (in fiction<br />
and non-fiction) after years spent working in visual art. I have<br />
been a studio artist, educator, and museum professional. I<br />
often use visual materials (photographs, sketches, other<br />
artworks) as a catalyst for writing. I believe that art (in all<br />
its forms) exists to connect us, and to focus our attention,<br />
at least for fleeting moments, on our common condition -<br />
we are human beings. I aspire to create work that touches<br />
people in ways that encourage them to see themselves in<br />
others, and others in themselves, as well as to remember to<br />
appreciate the natural world we share. I am currently focused<br />
on writing non-fiction, and I am finding parallels between the<br />
process of writing and the process of drawing and painting:<br />
each builds from observation, experience, and the free rein<br />
of intuition. Being in nature cultivates intuition, which is my<br />
most important tool, and <strong>Arteles</strong> will provide fertile ground.<br />
Pay Attention<br />
I came to <strong>Arteles</strong> expecting to concentrate on writing, with<br />
creating visual art serving as a supporting activity. The<br />
environment around me – natural, creative, communal – led<br />
me another way. I felt called to respond intuitively to what<br />
I was seeing and experiencing through creating drawings<br />
and paintings. I explored mixing media I had never combined<br />
before. I sometimes worked on multiple pieces at the same<br />
time. I did whatever felt right in the moment.<br />
Some of the artworks I created recorded observations of my<br />
external environment, and others sprang from mysterious<br />
places inside me. I think the ones which came from mystery<br />
are the most engaging.<br />
The atmosphere at <strong>Arteles</strong> links the soul to the sky.