Your Creative Push

Christina Bothwell is a sculptor who studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before teaching herself how to work with ceramics, and then cast glass. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of her work since 2006 and her sculptures are in public collections around the country and around the world.  She is drawn to the processes of birth, death, and renewal, and she is fascinated by what lies below the surface as she tries to capture the qualities of the “unseen.” Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/christinabothwell In this episode, Christina discusses: -What the “unseen” is that she tries to capture in her sculptures. -Why she likes to work with glass and how it has an otherworldly quality to it. -The idea of casting figures inside of her figures to suggest the soul and also pregnancy and birth. -How much of what she learned with her glass work was due to trial and error and “being a detective.” -The story of her first creative moments. -How art is supposed