Artist RAMON KUBICEK speaks to us from his home in Gibsons, Canada, where he is a prolific painter and writer. He describes how he has always worked at whatever comes his way in order to continue as an artist. Day jobs have included running wine tasting sessions and construction work. Throughout, he has created, and in recent years has also become interested in how art and healing can be merged, but with his own very specific viewpoint. Indeed his views on what makes art and artists are very carefully considered.

As he remarks of earlier years, 'My life was hard but filled with wonder.' That sense of wonder continues with his current paintings combining myth, magic, and a vivid use of colour, often with vivid and poetic titles.

Examples of the artwork - and writings - can be viewed on Ramon's website at: www.ramonkubicekart.com

and on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/ramonkubicek/

For a conversation about masterful painting and a life lived in art, tune in to Creageivity 37!

Music is 'Salmon Ladder / Resting Pool' from good friend of Creageivity, OLD MAN THOMPSON: https://souterrainsounds.bandcamp.com/

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In Creageivity 36 we meet AMANDA BOOTH, Voice Actor, Actor, Translator, and Children’s Author, who also performs a one-woman show Countless Lives about the fascinating Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
Amanda has lived and worked in Portugal for over forty years, with her first children’s book being published in March 2026, in three languages. The Donkey Who Wanted to Know Things is beautifully illustrated by the Portuguese artist Artur Varela.
In the podcast Amanda reads a sample of her work Imprints, based on the technique of Method Writing. It’s a very real and personal piece, a snapshot of her life at the rural ruin she has restored over many years.
She finishes the podcast with a poem by one of Pessoa’s most notable ‘heteronyms’, Ricardo Reis.
You can also hear how Amanda and Adrienne first met… in Bed.

The Donkey Who Wanted to Know Things: https://daisyeditions.com/catalogue/the-donkey-who-wanted-to-know-things/
Countless Lives - Introducing Fernando Pessoa: https://www.fernandopessoalisbon.com/
Music: Fado da Moureiria by Free To Use

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Sculptor, painter and vocalist LUCIANNE LASSALLE comes from a long line of artists. Her grandfather, Henry Valensi was founder of the Musicalisme movement in Paris and - as we hear in this podcast - showed Walt Disney his work which the American then ‘borrowed’ for the movie Fantasia. Lucianne’s grandmother was a painter who raised her children on a remote French island, while her aunt was a muse to Picasso. Parents Mélinda and Léonard were a potter and painter respectively. Little wonder with this rich heritage that Lucianne is so dedicated to pursuing her own art!

Her bronze and ceramic sculptures are classically figurative, echoing Bernini and Michelangelo, with a verve and contemporary dynamic, and can be found in public and private collections around the world. “Lucianne is one of the best figurative sculptors in the UK,” says the Chair of the National Galleries of Scotland. “Lucianne bridges the gap between hip-hop and Michelangelo,” says writer Howard Male. She was born in Paris, and now lives and works in Bristol, England. Her enthusiasm and creative joy are abundant in this episode of Creageivity.

Lucianne’s website: www.luciannelassalle.com/
facebook.com/lucianne.lassalle.sculpture/
Music by Geoff Leigh and Lucianne Lassalle used with permission

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