Artist Dawn Waters Baker: Hawaii Volcanoes Residency

This episode of Big Blend Radio’s "Toast to The Arts & Parks" Podcast, with the National Parks Arts Foundation, features landscape oil painter Dawn Waters Baker, a “Painter of Spiritual Landscapes,” fresh from her second NPAF artist residency at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. It’s her fourth NPAF residency overall, following Big Bend National Park and Gettysburg National Military Park. Dawn shares what a month on the Big Island gave her: - A caldera that has changed dramatically since her 2020 stay. It’s now steaming, it has sunk lower, and it erupted while she was there. - The resilient, community-minded people of Nāʻālehu. - A night on Mauna Kea under the Milky Way. - Her habit of hiking, sketching and journaling before she ever lifts a brush. We talk about painting mist, veils and glazes so you feel a place instead of seeing every detail. We also cover Nan Shepherd’s idea of going into a mountain, putting the phone down long enough to receive a landscape, and why art matters for preserving what’s at risk. Dawn also tells of fireflies rising over the Gettysburg fields at twilight and the trees that carried her story there, and why Big Bend is the park she cried her way out of. She wraps up with her plans for gold leaf and tree paintings from this residency, and her hope to show the new work at a Fort Worth gallery. LINKS & RESOURCES: - Dawn Waters Baker: https://www.DawnWatersBaker.com - National Parks Arts Foundation: https://NationalParksArtsFoundation.org - Browse more episodes: https://arts-parks.podbean.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.