Creative Momentum with Meg

Season 1: The Chateau Season Episode 18: Mary Powell In this episode, I interview Mary Powell, a multi-disciplinary artist from California who describes herself as someone who can get her hands on pretty much anything and everything – a jack-of-all-trades, master of as many trades as possible. Mary has technical training in oil painting, sculpture, and drawing, and over time has explored stained g...

Season 1: The Chateau Season Episode 17: Maddie Kimber, Children's book illustrator In this episode, I interview Maddy, a 25-year-old children's book illustrator, graphic designer, and screen printer from Illinois who now lives in Savannah, Georgia. Maddy's work focuses on telling stories to kids in a respectful and creatively fulfilling manner – avoiding the tendency to just use bright colours an...

Season 1: The Chateau Season Episode 16: Laura Wagner, Writer In this episode, I interview Laura Wagner, a writer from New York who was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and has been a Manhattan resident for the past 30-plus years. Laura explains that she doesn’t have a specific discipline – instead, inspiration hits her sometimes in the middle of the night or while walking down the busy ci...

Season 1: The Chateau Season Episode 15: Kent Curtis-Weakley, In this episode, I interview Kent Curtis-Weakley, an artist and designer originally from a small farming town in central Illinois who has been living in New York City for almost 16 years, working in Chelsea, Manhattan. KC, as he is known, works primarily in graphite and charcoal, with some work in sepia or walnut ink, and is practising...

Season 1: The Chateau Season Episode 14: Katherine Greer, Visual artist, Singer-Songwriter In this episode, I interview Katherine Greer, known as Katie, a visual artist from the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County, California. Katie works across multiple mediums including oil painting, charcoal, soft and oil pastels, and pencil work, and she also writes songs and stories. Her driving purpose...

Season 1: The Chateau Season Episode 13: Kate Bang, Visual artist In this episode, I interview Kate Bang, a visual artist and acrylic painter originally from South Korea who emigrated to Canada at age eight. Kate describes her creative process, which involves creating visual collages on the computer using photographic references in Photoshop, constructing the pictorial space she needs before trans...

In this episode, I interview Jon Emm, a writer from the United States currently living in Chicago who has been writing short stories for years and has recently transitioned to screenwriting, including screenplays and TV pilots. Jon describes his creative process as being ‘all over the place’ – sometimes starting with an idea he wants to explore, sometimes with a perspective or characters he can th...

In this episode, I interview Georgia King and Mark Storen, the performance-making duo behind Whiskey and Boots from Perth, Western Australia. They discuss how they’ve evolved from traditional theatre backgrounds into creating unique community-based verbatim performance work that combines storytelling, music, and interactive elements. Their process involves spending three weeks in a community inter...

In this episode, I interview Genevieve, a writer from Houston, Texas, who has recently lived in Spain teaching English and, at the time of the interview which was conducted while we were at our writing residency in France, was preparing to move back to Portland while balancing her creative work with a new full-time job. Genevieve discusses how her story ideas come from other creative sources like...

Episode 9: Gayatri, Artist Gayatri is a mixed-media painter. She’s originally from India and now lives in Burnaby in Canada where she creates vibrant paintings that are inspired by nature and animals and birds. She comes from a family of artists and she found her deepest connection to art after losing her dad in 2020. She says that he was her greatest teacher and inspiration. Since then art has be...

Season 1: The Chateau Season This season of the podcast, The Chateau Season, features creatives Meg Dunley interviewed while at a writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France . The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear...

Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration. Season 1: The Chateau Season This first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France . The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, ver...

Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration. Season 1: The Chateau Season This first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France . The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, ver...

Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration. Season 1: The Chateau Season This first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France . The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, ver...

Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration. Season 1: The Chateau Season This first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France . The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, ver...

Season 1: The Chateau Season This first season of the Creative Momentum with Meg podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency at Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency . The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio do...

Welcome to my Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley podcast. Season 1: The Chateau Season This first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France . The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creat...

Welcome to my new podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley. I’m thrilled to release this first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season. Each episode features a creative I interviewed during our shared time at the Chateau d'Orquevaux residency in France – writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind...