We recently connected with Casey Greene and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Casey thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you share an important lesson you learned in a prior job that’s helped you in your career afterwards?

Prior to working as a full time Creative, I worked in a very high paced job in Manhattan. Deadlines were always coming and going, constant emails and pressure to endlessly moving forward. When all this adds up, it’s inventible, mistakes happen! Unfortunately, in this career, little mistakes that could pop up would have large, irreversible effects. After accidentally having one of these moments, the feeling cut deep, every time, like it was a fresh first time.

One day, I made a mistake, and I was feeling really down. I had this boss at the time that was a very stern person, he always told it how it was. He called me into his office after passing me by at my desk, and I thought… oh boy, I really did it this time. Upon sitting down, he gave me one of the best lessons I have learned.

” You wont make any mistakes if you aren’t trying something new and putting yourself out there”. As a boss, he explained ,he would rather employee like me that he could see was in it, working and making mistakes and rebounding and learning then someone who is laying low and costing through. He said take it easy on yourself, you’re learning and growing.

To this day, I think about this conversation every time I try something new in my career, or having one of those not so great learning lessons crop up.. if I wasn’t putting myself out there to grow and learn, these things wouldn’t occur. All the positivity from growth is going to way outshine this moment, give yourself some grace.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

My name is Casey Greene, and my passion for art started at a very early age. Ive always been drawn to creating, utilizing anything I had accessible to create, which sometimes wasn’t very much. Creating art that is an escape for people, and myself. Creating artwork that brings joy, and a connection between it, the view and an emotion.

I am drawn to animals, and spiritual cultural topics/ iconography and I feel that viewers typically find something in my work that relates to them. What I love the most is when a viewer can tell me a story or a memory that my artwork reminded them of.

I work predominantly in acrylics, watercolors and mixed media. I am not overly concerned when I am creating on using these mediums traditionally, sometimes I like to explore textures, mixing and building up.

Casey Greene is a fine artist based on Long Island, NY. She studies and explores in many different mediums but recently has found a home in mixed media and acrylic painting. Key inspirations of Greene’s work include, nature and wildlife, mythology and folk culture. As an artist, she has said “…I always look to bring a bit of magic to the ordinary”. Recently, Greene works to dive deeper into the animal Kingdom, to explore the relationship between animals and their symbolic significance to modern and historic culture, in hopes to stress the importance of keeping these animals and their habitats safe.

Her work has been featured in local galleries and boutiques across Long Island, focusing mainly in the South shore area, where she is from. Some of these locations most recently include solo exhibitions at The Cheese Patch in Patchogue Village, Tranquility Within, South Country Library Community Gallery, as well as being part of the recent “Big Works” group exhibition with SBAA and BAFFA. Greene also recently has received honorable mention in the most recent edition of Art and Color 365 magazine, “Wildlife and Animals”, and received third place in acrylic for the most recent, 63rd annual SBAA juried member’s exhibition in Bellport Village.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

An amazing resource that I think is overlooked by many is their local community. Its hard these days when everything is online, so board and large to know where to start or where to get information from that correct or best for you. Places like the local public library are irreplaceable. They often time have resources for makers, with staff available to help. They many times also have classes for beginners where you can not only learn but more importantly connect with local like minded people that might have great tips and tricks for you to learn.

Local art leagues are key! I found such an amazing community of friends in my local art organizations. They helped me not only with furthering my artistic processes, but with things like advertising, applying for opportunities, and exhibiting. These now very dear friends and connections have helped me forge ahead to become the artist I am today.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding experience for myself with being an artist is having this chance to grow, and explore, evolve endlessly while connecting with the community around me. I am now at a a stage of my artistic career and life where being able to use my craft to help a cause brings me such joy. I love that I can evocative works that provoke feelings of joy, power, happiness and whimsy to people.

When people look at my newest collection of work that highlights enlarged animals, I love that they not only say….. wow what a cool tiger… they say, wow, I’ve always loved tiger, they were my favorite as a kid. Or they say something like ” These animals are so gorgeous, it is such shame that their numbers are depleting. I like that at this point my work is more than just a painting, it is an idea or an emotion to the viewer.

Reading and prepping to make a piece is also oa favorite part of being an artist for me. Information dumping and gathering as much as I can about a certain person, place or thing can be really interesting to me. One thing I love about capturing portraits of animals i learning more about them. Learning about they environment, their diet, their movements. Learning also about how people view them, are they celebrated in people cultures or lives or are they feared or maybe both.

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