The Creative Pulse podcast
The Creative Pulse is a podcast about people and their creative passions. On each episode host Angela de Burger connects with people who are fired up about expressing themselves by imagining, experimenting and creating. You’ll hear from inspiring creators who’ll give you lots of ideas about how you can explore your creativity too.
Episodes
129 episodes
Ep 120: Fern Piyachut Rusmeeroj - Miniature Model Maker
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, ...
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Ep 119: Mark Jones - Debunking the Starving Artist Myth
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...
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Ep 118: Alimo - Visual Artist
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 w...
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Ep 117: Jeff Meszaros - Bottle Cap Art
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 lay...
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Ep 116: Brent Estabrook - Oil Painter with a Desire to Inspire
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 an...
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Ep 115: Jayce Hall - Micrography Word Art Portraits
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, densi...
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Ep 114: Hannah Veiga - Pyrography Woodburning Artist
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 desi...
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Ep 113: Dylan Sadiq - Cube Artist
Dylan Sadiq is known as the College Cuber and he is a proud first-generation college graduate who earned a biomedical engineering degree from Rutgers University. He combines his engineering knowledge with his creativity to design and make detai...
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Ep 112: Dan Lam - Blob, Drip and Squish Sculptures
Dan Lam is an internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, known for her bold and unique sculptures. Her otherworldly, drippy sculptural work pushes boundaries and explores intriguing contrasts by mixing unconventional materials, organic form...
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Ep 111: Jeremy Booth - Western Pop Artist
Jeremy Booth built a successful career as a digital illustrator, working with some of the biggest brands in the world. He also made his personal artworks available to collectors through NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and created an NFT series focus...
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Ep 110: Kevin Collins - Secret Walls, Live Paint Battles
Kevin Collins is the CEO of Secret Walls, a global phenomenon founded by Terry Guy in 2006. They’re known for exhilarating live paint battles that showcase the extraordinary talent of global artists and captivate audiences with high-energy crea...
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Ep 109: Greg Mike - Surrealist Pop Artist & Gallery Owner/Curator
Greg Mike is a contemporary artist known for his signature characters, bold street art, mural paintings and Larry Loudmouf icon that blend intensely colourful designs with surrealist pop culture. His artistic mantra is “Live Life Loud”.
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Tell me your creativity tips! and summer break
Hello friends! I’m your host Angela de Burger and although I can’t believe it, we are already at the time of the year when I turn the microphone towards you because I’m curious to hear if you have a tip for staying creative, for mov...
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Ep 108: Marcella Young - Actor
Marcella Young grew up participating in the performing arts, studying literature and cultivating a love of storytelling. But over time, she became less involved in that world as she built a successful career in an entirely different field. But ...
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Ep 107: Katie McKinstry Stylos - Climbing Rope Art
Katie McKinstry Stylos developed a passion for the mountains and climbing at a young age and it’s been her passion ever since. She’s a nature-loving artist who uses pre-loved climbing rope as her medium - and the results are incredible!
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Ep 106: Janel Hawkins - Sand Sculptor and Founder, Sand Castle University
Janel Hawkins is living her dream by creating awe-inspiring sand sculptures that redefine what is possible in this temporary medium. Her creations dot the beaches of the Gulf Coast in the United States, bringing joy to those lucky enough to stu...
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Ep 105: Karlee Porter - Free Motion Quilter and Inventor of Graffiti Quilting
Karlee Porter is a creative quilter who loves everything about what is possible with this art form. In addition to valuing traditional approaches, Karlee has also developed brand new techniques and shares her skills and talents through workshop...
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Ep 104: Ernesto Lemke - LEGO® Portrait Brickpainter
Ernesto Lemke uses LEGO® bricks to create portraits using the unique brickpainting technique he developed. Incredibly, he makes these brick paintings without the use of software - he uses only his painter's eye and artistic vision to create his...
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Ep 103: Tinka Robev and Andrew Azzopardi - Puzzle Designers and Makers
Tinka Robev and Andrew Azzopardi design and produce contemporary puzzles that feed the soul and challenge the mind. These are not your average, everyday puzzles - they feature intricately-cut pieces that turn tried-and-true puzzle solving tacti...
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Ep 102: Katie Waters - Foley Artist
Katie Waters is a Foley Artist who enhances stories by performing the everyday sounds you hear in TV shows, movies, podcasts and video games. She captures live audio as she creates many different elements in a soundscape to perfectly match what...
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Ep 101: Bill Hecht - The Robotorium
Bill Hecht creates retro-futurism robot sculptures, finding great joy in imagining new uses for materials that would otherwise be discarded. He imaginatively combines bits and pieces of different items to create robot figures that have personal...
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IGNITE: 6 things I’ve learned from 100 conversations about creativity
I recently published the 100th episode of the Creative Pulse podcast and I have absolutely loved connecting with creative people around the world and bringing those conversations to you. Thank you so much for being here! This episo...
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Ep 100: Lindsay Jean Thomson - #The100DayProject
On the 100th episode of the podcast, Lindsay Jean Thomson shares all about #The100DayProject!It’s a free global creativity challenge and this year’s start date was announced during the episode. Taking part is pretty straightforward - yo...
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