Very grateful to share this wonderful interview with the remarkable Michael Ward.
Grace in the Ordinary: An Interview with Michael Ward
April Issue, 2024
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
The Acceptance of Sorrow: An Interview with Wormwood Stubbs
We are so grateful for the chance to talk to Wormwood Stubbs about his remarkable paintings.
A Dialog With Place: An Interview with Ron Donoughe
“I want the viewer to become part of the scene through memory and experience.” An interview with Pittsburgh painter Ron Donoughe.
February Issue, 2024
All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Inside the Camera Obscura: An Interview with Michele FariNelly
“It’s art to cook, garden, dance, sing, play an instrument, and compose music. It’s art to create clothes from a piece of fabric or to “see” a piece of furniture within a pile of wood. If we have the chance to imprint our stylistic signature in what we do, we are present in the works produced, despite our absence.”
Drawing with Light: An Interview with Ralf Jacobs
There are patterns all around us that we recognize in Jacobs’ work. Similarly, with music, we respond to sound waves, we can’t see them but they affect our emotions. Looking at Jacobs’ drawings, it feels that he’s captured something no one else has: A new way of looking at something that we always see but don’t always notice.
To Be a Part of This World: An Interview With Toby Rosenbloom
“Every little painting is just an attempt to capture a feeling.” An interview with Toby Rosenbloom
All I Had to Do Was Listen: An Interview with Torsten Richter
“Sometimes I’m following the light. Sometimes I’m following the clouds. And sometimes I’m looking for something I do not know beforehand.” An interview with Torsten Richter
I Am Because You Are: An Interview with Tracy Jackson
Tracy Jackson’s work is full of questions: asked, pondered, answered, and asked again. A fine teeming network of ideas and philosophy ties the images together: ideas about what it means to interact with other humans and with the natural world around us, and about the transformative power of compassion, community, nonconformity, and creativity.
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