The Creative Pulse podcast

John Avilla joined his family’s band at only 8 years of age and the experience ignited a lifelong passion for music. Building on his expertise in branding and marketing for global companies, he is now a co-founder of Sound Union, a first-of-its-kind social club and creative studio in Redwood City, California.

The space welcomes people who make music a central part of their lives—not necessarily as a career, but as a passio...

David Gilliver is multi-talented, sharing his creativity as a light painter and miniature artist. His works are both entertaining and thought-provoking in both their composition and subject matter.

To create light paintings, he uses long-exposure photography techniques under the darkness of night. And his ‘Little People’ and ‘Toys’ macro photography series depict captivating scenes using miniature people and items to tell ...

Hello friends! I’m your host Angela de Burger, and incredibly, once again summer is here, which means that instead of welcoming a guest on this episode, it’s time for me to pose a classic Creative Pulse question to you:
What are your tips for starting up, or keeping up, the creative energy in your life?

To share a tip, you can:
- record a short voicemail from your phone or computer at speakpipe.com/CreativePulse 
- or y...

Tri Le is a pen and ink artist who weaves imagination into his art, creating light within an illogical world. His work often leans toward surrealism, intertwining both traditional and contemporary elements. Tri’s pieces often explore the perpetual conflict between opposing forces: love and hatred, pleasure and displeasure, past and present. He seeks to capture the tension and harmony between these dualities, examining how they infl...

Kasia Muzyka is an intuitive artist and seeker of the sacred threads that weave life’s visible and invisible dimensions. She paints with coffee, wine and natural pigments to make the unseen visible and says her works are portals - expressions of remembrance, healing and communion with the heart.

She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and her most recent exhibition, in New York, is titled The Sacred Cond...

Alexandria Masse works with textiles and fibres to construct wearable art and soft sculptures. She is fascinated by how a material can be manipulated and uses sewing, knitting and crochet to make both functional and fine art creations.

Alexandria’s works have been shown in two solo exhibitions as well as many group exhibitions all over Canada as well as in the United States, Portugal and Iceland, and she was selected as an artist-in...

MAESTRO is a Spanish artist who divides his time between the eastern coast of Spain and the western coast of the United States. He studied, trained and developed a professional practice as an architect and designer before beginning his artistic career.

After immigrating to the United States, MAESTRO picked up a phone with a minimal data plan. The images on his screen often failed to load and he found himself intrigued by ...

Louisa Deasey has been a professional writer for more than 20 years and her specialty is crafting memoirs. She says that true stories, well-told, have the power to change the world. In her captivating memoir, A Letter From Paris, Louisa shares how she received a message out of the blue from a stranger in France, telling her about a stack of letters written decades before about a man she hardly knew: her father.

On this ep...

Simon Arizpe is an award-winning pop-up book designer, paper engineer and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a graduate of The Pratt Institute, has worked in the field of pop-up book design for over 20 years and was recently an artist-in-residence at Zion National Park.

He’s designed more than 35 pop-up books to date and works on every aspect of the process, from concept to publication. His book, Stranger Things: The ...

Sammie Aplin works in the healthcare field but a few years ago, in her free time, she began to do daily beach clean-ups in her community. She noticed there was a lot of plastic litter on the shore and wanted to do something about it, viewing this waste as a resource. Before long, her creative mind saw a way to give these items a second life in thought-provoking, eye-catching, structured, yet whimsical artworks.

Her pieces ...

Laurence Winram is a talented land artist who makes his professional living as an award-winning commercial and fine art photographer. He spends his free time following his passion by creating land art in forests, on beaches and anywhere inspiration finds him.

He uses natural, found items such as leaves, flowers, sticks and stones, to create ephemeral works of art featuring geometric patterns, size progressions and tessell...

Kristy Gordon is a Canadian-born artist living in New York City who is an accomplished painter, teacher and writer. Her work has been widely exhibited and her paintings hang in more than 600 collections worldwide.

She’s a three-time recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and has participated in residencies and apprenticeships in Italy, China, Norway and France. She’s now helping to develop th...

Fern Piyachut Rusmeeroj is a trained architect who followed her creative passion and developed a career making miniature models of structures and their contents. She designs and makes scaled representations of buildings, homes, shops and more, for both individuals and commercial clients. Imagine your own home and everything in it, created at a size that you could display on a coffee table. It’s like the ultimate, personalized dollh...

Mark Jones has dedicated over 25 years to empowering the next generation of creatives. His book, The Starving Artist Myth, challenges long-standing stereotypes about creative careers, advocating for the economic and social value they contribute to the world. 

Mark is an accomplished educator, producer and author, known for bridging the worlds of culture, technology and education and his insight into the evolving landscape...

Alimo has been drawing and creating for as long as he can remember and while he was in art school he had an experience that challenged his ideas and changed the way he thinks about art to this day.

He’s built a creative universe within which he works, designing and making fine art, NFT collections, sustainable clothing, products, murals, commissions and commercial projects. Alimo's artwork is inspired by experiences t...

After collecting thousands of colourful bottle caps over several years, Jeff Meszaros had a brilliant idea - he could create a mosaic using these unconventional art supplies. Through trial and error, Jeff developed techniques to flatten and layer the caps in a unique way, allowing him to create textured portraits and images that also include 'easter eggs' that can be found when they’re viewed up close.

He’s now c...

Brent Estabrook is an artist who’s known for his large-scale, colourful oil paintings of stuffed animals - often huge piles of them, all cuddled up together. He combines challenging techniques with a childlike sense of joy, creating textured and vibrant compositions. And the more you look at his detailed works, the more treasures there are to discover.

His style has evolved over time, exploring realism, hyperrealism, abst...

Jayce Hall is a micrography word artist, drawing portraits using only combinations of letters that he repeats hundreds, or even thousands, of times. By precisely controlling the size of the letters he hand draws, as well as their spacing, density, and intensity of colour, he can make a portrait magically emerge out of the characters on the canvas.

His word art portraits have been featured by ESPN and Buzzfeed and he’s eve...

Hannah Veiga is a multidisciplinary artist whose specialty is pyrography - the art of woodburning. She draws intricate scenes, freehand, by making burn marks in carefully chosen, sustainably-sourced pieces of wood. Hannah strives to create designs that complement the wood and its grain, with her design emerging through it as if it was meant to be there all along.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Hannah abo...