⭐️ Lisa Brinkman (Board Member)
Mixed Media
Like a seed, my artistic process, begins with a quiet contemplative time--a liminal place, of surrendering to not-knowing and resting in a pregnant darkness to wait for creative inspiration. By suspending expectations, I find new sparky ideas can emerge to fuel my imagination and thus compels me to create. To craft my eco-printed oil paintings, I use plants like geranium, maple,oak, and sumac leaves, collected from the land surrounding my Oregon home of 39 years.
There is a certain resonance in working with materials of the earth.Plants embody a life force that carry messages; tell stories; and participate in the artwork’s ultimate creative trajectory. Plants, birds,animals, insects, and celestial objects like the moon are frequent images in the storytelling scenarios I create. The conceptual framework of my artwork centers around using materials of the earth that can connect me, and I hope us, back to humanity’s earth-based traditions to heal, connect, and inspire.
Libby Hoagland
Ceramics
In Oaxaca Pre-Columbian ceramic figures seized my imagination and soon I was practicing humanity's earliest technology for making 3-dimensional art out of the earth itself. I handbuilt hundreds of fertility figures and bowls, burnished them with terra sigilatta and baked them in a smokey wood fire. Next I created larger sculptures, often hybrids of women and animals which I finished with oxides and stains. Most recently, before a mastectomy, I created a series of life-sized torsos to honor the beauty and generativity of women's breasts.