ArtsIn the Studio with Sculptor Carlos Page
Sara CrockerNovember 1, 2023
See Cave Creek sculptor Carlos Page’s pieces and creative space in person at the Hidden in the Hills Artist Studio Tour this month.
The PHiXStudio Session: Carol McDonald
Marilyn HawkesNovember 11, 2022
Chandler resident Carol McDonald never imagined she would become an artist after retiring in 2018 from her “left-brain, analytical business administration career.” Over the years, she had taken a slew of art classes, but never thought of herself as “remotely artistic.” For Christmas in 2018, McDonald’s husband bought her an easel and a canvas and encouraged her to paint. She experimented with different paints, colors and textures and discovered that she enjoyed expressing herself through...
The PHiXStudio Session with Sculptor Curt Mattson
Alison CutlerNovember 17, 2021
Curt Mattson knows horses better than the back of his clay-dusted hands. His distinctive sculptures of the animals are a testament to his childhood growing up on ranches along the West Coast. Mattson realized in his late 20s that life on the range would soon render him broke – or broken – and turned to art as another expression of his investment in the life of cowboys. His clay sculptures dig beyond the flesh of...