Creative Contemplation
Join host Suzanne Lago Arthur for engaging discussions with creative professionals about their art and what inspires and feeds their creativity.
Episodes
January 13, 2026
Creative Contemplation
S4E8 Ayako Shimada; Gathering Inspiration Close to Home
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a delightful conversation with Tokyo based painter, Ayako Shimada about her solo show "Painting Diary" at Opa Gallery (1/16/26-1/21/26) of her recent landscape paintings of Inokashira Park and its playgrounds, which su...
December 30, 2025
Creative Contemplation
EU01.5 In The Orbit of Euan Uglow; Susannah Fiennes, Ann Gardner & Lisa Micklewright {Continued)
In this special mini-series host and creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur, seeks to capture the living art history of famed British artist, Euan Uglow by interviewing his students, contemporaries and those who knew him best. In this episode, Suzanne continues her inspi...
December 18, 2025
Creative Contemplation
EU01 In The Orbit of Euan Uglow; Susannah Fiennes, Ann Gardner & Lisa Micklewright
In this special mini-series host and creator, Suzanne Lago Arthur, seeks to capture the living art history of famed British artist, Euan Uglow by interviewing his students, contemporaries and those who knew him best. In this inaugural episode, Suzanne has an inspired convers...
November 20, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E7 Aaron M. Thompson; Painter of Observation And Imagining
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast reconnects with Pennsylvania based painter, Aaron M. Thompson to discuss his work, his journey as an artist and the relationships he has forged with his mentors, two exceptional American realist painters--Phillip Geiger and Sc...
October 8, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E6 Morgan Irons; Painter of Archetypal Symbolism Within The Western Landscape
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a moving and at times astonishing conversation with Montana based painter, Morgan Irons about her psychologically charged work set within the Western landscape that she lives in. Don't miss this inspi...
September 2, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E5 Lenny Campello; Artist, Gallerist & Curator
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast talks with Cuban born, American Artist, Gallerist & Curator-Lenny Campello. Lenny shares his journey to becoming the artist he is today in this engaging episode as well as discusses his largest curatorial project to date; a multi-...
August 19, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E4 Jack Rasmussen; Director and Curator at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has an engaging conversation with one of the principal figures of the Washington DC arts scene for the past several decades--The Director and Curator at American University Museum, Jack Rasmu...
July 10, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E3 James Lloyd; A Brush with Royalty
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a delightful conversation with British Portrait Painter, James Lloyd about his exceptional career painting portraits of some of England's most extraordinary individuals including Sir Paul Smith, Dame Maggie Smith and the late Queen herself, El...
May 22, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E2 Matt Klos; Perceptual Painter of Lived Environments
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a conversation with Baltimore M.D. based, perceptual painter, Matt Klos about his work and inspiration, his development as an artist and the various roles that he occupies as a creative professional.
Website: mattklos.com
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April 21, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E1 Alex Cree; Painting with Imagination from Lived Experience
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast converses with British painter, Alex Cree about his training in observationally based, representational painting and how he broke away from a more traditionally realist approach in order to find his own true artistic voice.
December 31st, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E10 Bryan Whitney; Photographing the Transcendent and the Unseen
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast has a fascinating conversation with NYC based photographer and artist, Bryan Whitney who specializes in alternative methods of imaging such as X-Rays, 3-D Imagery and Virtual Reality and uses them to explore subjects i...
December 17th, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E9 Rob Evans; Magic Realist Artist Elevating the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast interviews famed Magic Realist Artist, Rob Evans about his fantastic work and his amazing career which includes hanging alongside many of his own artistic idols.
Website: robevansart.org
I...
November 14th, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E8 Bethann Moran-Handzlik; Painting from Intuition, Memory and Observation
Join Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation podcast for this deep and enlightening conversation with Wisconsin based painter, Bethann Moran-Handzlik on the subjects of intuition, memory and painting from observation. This is an episode that will stay with...
August 28, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E7 Erin Raedeke; Reimagined Memories Through Painting
In S3E7 of the Creative Contemplation Podcast, host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a thoughtful conversation with Washington DC area painter, Erin Raedeke about her beginnings, her international career and the process and creation of her largely memory-based paintings.
Website: erinraedeke.co...
July 30, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E6 Ferrier, Bishop & Van Dyke
Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a light-hearted yet insightful conversation with three artists; Jodi Kolker Ferrier, Lindy Bishop and Rachael Van Dyke about their work, their interactions as both colleagues and friends and the artist residencies that they have participated in together. A...
June 26, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E5 Kai Samuels-Davis Continued
Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur continues her S3E4 conversation with American painter Kai Samuels-Davis about his journey to becoming an artist, his re-discovery of self and how in the process he discovered his own artistic voice. Kai describes in detail the inspiration behind his current body ...
May 29, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E4 Kai Samuels-Davis
Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has an enlightening conversation with American painter Kai Samuels-Davis about his journey to becoming an artist, his re-discovery of self and how in the process he discovered his own artistic voice. Kai describes in detail the inspiration behind his current body of work an...
May 13, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E3 Laura Smith
Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a very special conversation with British painter Laura Smith about her work, her formative years and the extraordinary training she acquired with some of Britain's most beloved observational painters. This is truly an episode you don't want to miss!
Websit...
April 3, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E2 Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco
Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has a delightful conversation with the Italian painter Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco about her painting and printmaking practices and the self-discovery she has gained from her work.
Website: ilardt.com
Instagram (Painting): @ilariardt
Instagram (Print...
March 2, 2024
Creative Contemplation
S3E1 Teresa Oaxaca Returns
Creative Contemplation podcast host & creator Suzanne Lago Arthur has an engaging conversation with her friend, the classical surrealist painter, Teresa Oaxaca. In this episode, Teresa and Suzanne discuss how to best align your life so that you are engaging in your creative practice as much as possible and making a living from it.
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