Episode 2: Tamiko Braun

03/03/21 • 47 min

Tamiko Braun is a Munich-based, mixed-media artist with a love for vibrant colors, textures, and unexpected additives like sand, coffee, and marble dust. As a process-oriented artist, she focuses on creating layers in her work, stripped away to reveal designs of varying depth underneath. Fluent in Japanese, English and German, Tamiko also has over 20 years of consulting, strategic planning, business development and marketing experience with international technology companies.
Just a Southern California "beach girl" at heart, Tamiko shares how a health scare made her re-evaluate her intense, international travel-oriented career and reconnect her to art. Tamiko shares how she grew her art practice, developed commission work and learned to trust her intuitive practice. As Tamiko says, "It's never too late to reset."
Find Tamiko:
Tamiko's Website: https://www.tamikobraun.com
Tamiko's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamikobraun.art
Tamiko's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tamikobraun.art
Mentioned:
14" Non-Serrated Cake Knife: (available here)
Brian Rutenberg (website), Clear Seeing Places (book)
Professor Lalo Srkalovic (website)
Alice Sheridan / Connected Artists (website)
Louise Fletcher (website)
Mark Eanes color workshops (website)*
*Tamiko mentioned this off-air but raves about Mark's online workshops
Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
Kristy's Website: https://www.kristybattani.com
Kristy's Instagram: kristybattaniart
Kristy's Facebook: kristybattaniart
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Episode 1: Sharon Kyle

Sharon Kyle is a multidisciplinary artist best known for her unique use of texture and materials. Sharon often incorporates found ordinary objects like rusted metal, wood, paper and cloth, alongside industrial materials such as concrete, asphalt and insulation foam. Sharon’s work transforms old, rusted, discarded materials into elegant but provocative statements on aging, gender, and cultural values.
In this conversation, Sharon Kyle discusses how her early experiences in real estate and construction influenced her choice of materials, how she made the plunge to return to college in her early 30s, and how she supplemented her early art practice with sales positions working with educational materials.
Sharon's infectious laugh and candid discussion of aging make this a particularly engaging conversation.
Find Sharon:
Sharon's Website: www.sharonkyle.art
Sharon's Instagram: sharonkyleartworks
Mentioned:

Janet Fish, contemporary American realist artist learn more
Real Artists Don’t Starve, by Jeff Goins available here
Lois Wilson, American folk artist learn more
Treasures from the Rubble, documentary about artist Lois Wilson watch here
Fayette Art Museum (Fayette, AL) learn more

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
Kristy's Website: www.kristybattani.com
Kristy's Instagram: kristybattaniart

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Episode 3: Arielle Austin

Arielle Austin is an abstract painter from Austin, Texas whose work radiates graceful energy. In this conversation, Arielle generously shares her experiences with transitioning from an unfulfilling career, re-establishing her art presence in a new city, and the recent transition— leaving her "day job" to devote her energy full time to being an Artist.
Comparing her work to a "visual diary," Arielle offers candid insight into the role art has played in her life journey. "Start where you are with what you've got."
Find Arielle:
Website: https://www.arielle-austin.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arielle_austin/
Mentioned:

Princeton Catalyst Tool: (available here)
Blanton Art Museum, Joan Mitchell's "Rock Bottom" (see)
Ninth Street Women, Mary Gabriel (book)
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Mason Currey (book)
BBATX / Boss Babes (learn more)
Maverick City Music (listen)
ATX Gals (learn more)
Six Square, Austin TX (learn more/visit)
Austin Art Garage (visit)
Aimée Everett (see work)

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
Website: https://www.kristybattani.com
Instagram: kristybattaniart
Facebook: kristybattaniart
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