The Pastoral Podcast

Angela Morgan

Angela Morgan's work celebrates humanity through the use of color, pattern and line.  Her human figures express the poses of life; the jubilation of dance, the contemplation of parenthood, and the melancholy of summer’s end. Colours fuse and meld to achive gesture; transforming abstract images into living moments.
 

Mallory Dawn

Mallory Dawn, is a self-taught, internationally collected fine Artisit. Using a variety of mediums including spray paint, ink, pigments, pencils and acrylics she creates rich, and surreal works. Thought her paintings and murals, Dawn translates her personal experiences and research into a magical world for the viewer to enter. 
 
This collection of work was born after a great loss which led her to Montana to mourn and heal. It was in this place that she bonded with deer. Watching their nurturing love, guidance and playful spirit, her heart began to heal and a new love was born. 
 
Her works draw inspiration from her decade-long career in fashion design, by weaving the iconic Gucci Flora print into her subjects and creating protective and nurturing layer of florals. The Guccis Flora collection was born in 1966, when Princess Grace Kelly bought a Gucci bag from the flagship store. As a gift for her support, Rodolfo Gucci commissioned illustrator Vittorio Accornero to design a floral scarf which would become the iconic style of the Gucci House for decades to come. 
 
Dawn continues to experiment in the studio with the addition of lighting elements, fabrics, textures and different materials to convey the feelings of what she has witnessed in nature. Ultimately striving to create work that brings all of us, human and wildlife, closer together. She’s also continues to grow as an activist for social causes that are meaningful to her. Most recently becoming a Montana Wildlife Federation Ambassador. 
 
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir
 

Shawna Moore

Shawna Moore is a contemporary American painter known for her subtle explorations of color. Her paintings are the product of an ongoing investigation into the nature of abstraction and the medium of painting itself.
"I make the kinds of artwork that I like to look at. When visiting galleries and museums, I am intrigued by art that I can’t quite figure out how it was made or how the artist came to such a simple and pure expression. That's what I aim for, technical prowess and a momentary capture of the sublime aspects of nature and my life as a thinking, feeling, creative person. 
The challenge is to grow and evolve as an artist. My focus is painting, not just encaustic painting. Acknowledging the significance of growth and reinvention, I am looking at questions around sustaining a successful and evolving artistic practice."
 

Nate Closson

Nate Closson began painting at an early age under the instruction of his mother, a watercolor painter.  This early exposure to Art gave Nate a firm foundation in drawing and design, and a love for all things creative.  As a senior in high school, he won first place in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest, but it was during his freshman year of college, while taking a beginning painting class, that Nate painted his first plein air oil painting.  It was only a little sketch of the San Diego coast, but it sparked a new interest in painting plein air and working in oil paint.  Since that time Nate has developed his skills to creating vibrant paintings that capture light and atmosphere, working both in the studio and en plein air.

Matt Flint

The journey of making a painting is the touchstone for Flint’s work. “I begin my paintings without a plan. No preliminary sketches are made; every thought is worked out directly on the canvas.” Beginning his artistic career as a freelance illustrator, Flint quickly found his passion for painting upon entering graduate school. Even after two decades, Flint is still transforming and experimenting with his palate, medium, and subjects. During his youth and today Flint seeks out the solitude of untamed places and the wildlife that inhabits them. The rich textures and worked surfaces of his paintings evoke the constant changes and processes found in the natural world.

Jennifer Li

Jennifer Li creates surreal and psychologically charged genre paintings and portraits, drawing inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age. 

Talissa Abeyta

In our first episode, owner and host Monica Pastor sits down with Talissa Abeyta. Abeyta, a Native contemporary female artist who informs viewers of her people's culture and her artistic practices.