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I knew this would come about from my captivation with Lawren Harris. It started when I discovered his massive paintings as a child, going with my school to visit the bigger galleries in downtown Toronto, Canada. His paintings have an immensity to them. A grandeur, tremendousness that envelopes you. Brings you inward, inside. Almost as if he captures you inside a discussion he is having with himself and you on the style, the work, the vastness of our Canadian North that attracted him for his whole life.

Lawren Harris met J. E. H. MacDonald, Franklin Carmichael, A. Y, Jackson, and the other artists who formed the Group of Seven. They had a unique passion that focused their energies to produce prolific works that glorify our nation. This podcast will discuss other artists you may not have heard of who went into the fabric of Canadian Abstract Art. 

How did these artists connect the influences from England, New York, and the distracting Canadian landscapes that fold you in? Who knew each other during that turbulent time of the early 19th century? What did they share? How did their exposure to these decidedly different personalities and perspectives weave together to depict a refreshing, new, and extraordinary language that transcended borders, communities, and cultures?

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             Finding her passion for art later in life Cherie jumps headlong into the intensity of colour and texture. She has found her intuition with acrylic paint that thrives on sensation and spontaneity. She allows her paintbrush free reign, with no end point in sight. Being an award-winning artist Cherie recognizes her expressive energy and how it invites the viewer to contemplate and begin their own creative journey. 

             How her work has an energetic engagement that pulls you in allowing you to discover the natural and persuasive narrative of colour and form purely expressed using chunky brushwork and emotional connection. Cherie has been very prolific over the last decade, producing many compositions that inspire and delight many observers who have come across her work at many exhibits and fairs in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Recently having her studio built for her, Cherie divides her time between the studio in Muskoka and Toronto, Canada. Admitting to being inspired by lines and colour combinations, Cherie aims to infuse joy as her inspirations continually push boundaries and drive others to channel their creative energy into a singular focus like abstraction.

To connect with Cherie Daly: https://www.cheriedaly.com/

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Being an award winning artist is one of many roles Albert Slark inhabits in his multifaceted career. Beginning with an interest in drawing superheroes Albert began exploring classical painting and drawing, he graduated from Alberta University of Arts. He continued taking classes at Michael John Angel, and even studied with Max Ginsberg in New York privately. 

Slark started working as an illustrator and began illustrating for ads for commercials, video game ads, and Sci-Fi covers. This led him to finally start illustrating paperback covers in a myriad of different genres from adventure to western to romance. He has become a sought after Portrait artist for his style has developed into masterful compositions that are uniquely original.

Albert's big break came in 2003 when he became one of only three Canadians who have been commissioned to paint celebrity portraits for the United States Postal Service on commemorative stamps. These stunning stamps are featuring celebrities like Marian Anderson, Spencer Tracy, and Betty Davis.

To connect with Albert: https://portraitsbyalbertslark.com/

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           Alice lives a quiet life up in Cobourg Ontario, Canada. A life that has tremendous beauty from the landscapes that surround her every day to the moments that transcend and transport her within her peaceful life. Meeting this wonderful artist I simply had to have a chat with her about her incredible work. Work that speaks volumes with subtlety, sharp curves and silent warm hues. This is the power behind our overwhelming backdrop known as the Canadian outback. 

        Join me as I take a plunge into the imagination of Alice Vander Vennen - an Artist recently purchased by Mark Zuckerberg, an Artist who has reached new heights while continuing to wonder those around her. Within her quiet fortitude we may discover how artists can achieve magnificent strengths and depths. Can she share secrets of a path that can lead creatives into this successful stream of consciousness? 

Does Alice have access to a unique meditative realm, or are there other tools required? Vander Vennen may help us discover how creatives and other individuals can become more intune with themselves and more centred on being inspired and intrigued on their environment, and how to channel creativity to be more of an integral part of society, and independently cathartic and compassionate.  

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho/Alice Vander Vennen

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         Jacques background is accounting, while his passion is art in a multitude of mediums. Practicing his craft for 25+ years he has woven an intricate tapestry of  artwork that has a range many would be intrigued by. He loves the process of working with his inspiration - where he grew up in Northern Quebec, and the places he likes to travel.

         Inspired by landscapes, although the longer you look at these compositions the more you begin to see the thin layers that he uses to 'have the images create themselves.' That the layers he applied previously shine through the layers painted thinly on top. This he admits must be from his experience with working with pastels.

        Primarily Jacques uses oil paint, but he also works with watercolour, sculpture, pastel and a range of other mediums to capture the atmosphere, the emotion evoked by nature. To catch the essence of a space and time. Amongst his mediums he pauses time with his compositions of stillness.

Podcast Credits:

Carolyn Botelho/Jacques Descoteaux

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         I discovered this genius in high school, or was it somewhere in the collective consciousness that I saw his melting clocks? I’m not certain, but I know when I found this eclectically strange human with his peculiar moustache, his Spanish background, I was hooked. At the time I was getting into the band The Doors, and Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception, Brave New World, and The Perennial Philosophy. 

         It was an electric time of innovation and industry that was buzzing and thriving with creativity during a very traumatic political period.  Let’s take a deep dive on these Artists and what was so radical a century ago, It was a period of time that was chaotic, progressive, and downright controversial. With an active movement of  imagination becoming a source of spiritual renewal. There were veins of international networks exploring poetry, writing, philosophy, politics, and social change brought about by the rapid urbanization, and advancements in science and technology. 

         There was a fever frenzy pace that was happening simultaneously and independently. A concentration of fertile energetic ideas that challenged the establishment. There was an urgency that hadn’t been seen before. An almost neurotic romanticism during this time, it was dynamic, and even a little bit sexy.  How multiple cultures, countries and climates were collectively collaborating, composing, and creating. They were pushing the envelope, challenging the critics, causing riots, and even shocking the bourgeois aesthetic – Duchamp’s Urinal readymade placed nonchalantly inside the gallery signed R. Mutt.

Podcast Credits: Carolyn Botelho

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          Exploring Art for 50+ years has proven to Anne MaClear that painting will always have it's challenges, and new ways of seeing. MaClear looks to find unexplored avenues to go down that provide new opportunities. Having the educational framework in her bones of numerous classes ranging from pastels, oil stick, embroidery, encaustic, wax, oil, and textile to name a few. 

     From her admiration of fellow Artists Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell - two pioneers from the Modernist art movement; more specifically Pop, and Abstract Expressionism.  MaClear punctuates her practice with flourishes from these two Artists. So subtly and pervasively, that they have an uncanny resemblance, but one that is not inherently obvious. This is a skill Anne has developed over decades in her creative practice.

Join me as we discuss the mediums, the message; what being Canadian addsto her practice, and what a little bit of chaos brings to artwork.  How titles are chosen; and how often people assume Abstract Art is easier, when in fact it is quite the opposite. Anne shares how and why she is intrigued to take on this style.

Connect with Anne MaClear: https://propellerartgallery.com/members/anne-mcalear/

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Anne MaClear/Carolyn Botelho

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How did I fall into this obsession? It really was an accident, something I never intended. When I studied Art in high school there were so many artists that fascinated me. Mainly from the modern art movement. I remembered Andy Warhol's soup cans and silkscreens; but  they weren't anything special.

It wasn't until much later that I realized we had similarities that went beyond any artistic technique or style. My family was in no way similar to Mr Warhola's religious upbringing - far from it. My family is very British. What we shared is a little horrific. 

What my fascination did spark for me was a kinship with Andy Warhol. I wanted to know more about his background, his life in the 60s' and 70s'. Where he discovered his eclectic style of using consumerism as a motif. Join me as we do a deeply different dive on Andy Warhol. One that feels a little bit more real than what the history books are telling you.    

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         Beverley Daniels Part 2 goes deeper into discussing how she has explored and developed her technique as a multi-disciplinary artist. In the last decade she has been focusing on dissecting and combining found objects. Allowing them to share the space almost that can sometimes result in an argument, they are separated until they can sit comfortably together.

         This is the area that Daniels loves to be involved in. It's the energy, the movement, the discussion between the mediums, how they relate, how they speak to each other to say what cannot be said. It becomes more than what it appears, while at the same time remaining quiet. Using the ecological grief as a tool to be something more for the observer.

         Beverley has had a number of exhibitions that explore this dynamic. Using upcycled materials that become intrinsically more than they ever would have when left at the curb. The flyers, ads, and banners, that arrive unbidden at our door almost daily we unthinkingly put in our trash; Beverley uses to weave into contemporary designs that will surprise you. 

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Beverley Daniels/Carolyn Botelho

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Beverley Daniels is a multi-disciplinary Artist that found her passion light up when she finds materials while going about her day in Toronto, Canada. Finding them incidentally, and rather intrusively, she is given these nuanced prints as brightly coloured advertisements; and stumbles onto interesting finds that people put outside their homes to give away. 

Being intrigued to discover and combine these objects into woven and fused plastics, Using materials destined for landfills: ribbons, lawn signs, scrap vinyl upholstery, old film. Cutting, weaving, and gluing or fusing them. This was originally an Ecological anxiety, now Daniels prefers them. In summary Daniels loves garbage.

Dabbling in collages as her medium when she attended Ontario College of Art and Design, now she has been working in multi-disciplinary as her primary medium for the last decade. When she feels the nudge to go in a certain direction she goes there. Feeling deeply satisfied in recognizing the beauty in discarded objects, the plethora is overwhelming, and the unpredictability confounds.

To Connect with Beverley Daniels: https://www.instagram.com/beverleydaniels5/

Podcast Credits:

Beverley Daniels/Carolyn Botelho

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This was going to be one of the most exciting times in my life. I had decided this before I even stepped inside the building. I was about to embark on my post-secondary education at a school where the Group of Seven had gone. Those god-like Painters of our glorious nation known as Canada. This is my essay to you, declaring my profound experience of being an Abstract painter and how it led me to become an Artist interviewer. To want to go behind the scenes, undercover, into the inner circle of the imagination.

What really touched me the most about this time in my life, was how much Art really spoke to me; I could feel the tangible living passion these Artists had poured into their artwork.  I was volunteering at the Art Gallery of Ontario on the weekends, and being consumed with Artwork all the time was really exhilarating. There truly was an igniting energy that I could feel. It was in the faculty, the students, the art on the walls, the lectures, everywhere. 

One of the most influential aspects of Picasso’s work for me was his Cubist period. Seeing how he deconstructed forms and reassembled them from multiple perspectives taught me that art doesn't have to mirror reality—it can interpret and transform into unrecognizable shapes and perspectives. In essence, Picasso didn’t just influence how I create; he helped shape why I create. He showed me that art can be a means of personal evolution, emotional expression, and cultural conversation—all at once.

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Having such a curious and inventive mind Libby Hague has been a prolific Toronto based Artist specializing in video and large scale print installations. She has taught printmaking at Sheridan College, and is known for her paper collage and constructed installations; that deal with disaster, hope and the precariousness of consequence. Understanding the resilience and fragility of paper Libby knows this is why it is the perfect medium for expression.

Born in St Thomas Ontario, and growing up in Montreal, Quebec;  Libby has been creating sculptures and stories of contradiction, violence, love, death, disease, and vulnerability. Moving freely amongst these narratives has given her a unique vantage point as a storyteller. From here she remembers as a child how her passion grew with the fragility and strength of paper. Cutting up and pasting characters from magazines and catalogues.

Collecting and navigating her passion for literature Libby shares how her love of reading changed how she saw the world, how her love transcended language and boundaries of relationships and characters. How moving amongst these narratives gave her the opportunity to speak through paper about dialogues she finds in the environment around her. How they may be obscure, but there is a thread of reality running through all of them.

To connect with Libby Hague: http://libbyhague.com/basic.html

Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

*In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a Trojan princess known for her prophetic abilities. She was cursed by the god Apollo so that while her prophecies were always true, no one would ever believe them.

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Kurt Schwitter is ultimately an awe-inspiring artist from many disciplines, including Post Impressionism, Dada, Surrealism, poetry, and performance art from the 20th century. However, the work he created using sculptured spaces truly epitomizes and transfixes the human psyche into believing it is in an alternate reality. 

One of his most recognized works, Merz, was titled this, as in German it is the later part of the word Commerce he had seen in a magazine. This piece has been called a psychological collage of coherent fragments of what occupied Schwitters' mind at this time. 

Schwitters' artwork changed how observers saw their built world and what it represented at the time. There was plenty of political turmoil and social unrest during the first World War. A time where Schwitters' style became darker. This is where Schwitter was honing in on his craft as one the first installation artists. 

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Leaves of Canada is a uniquely original project that documents and celebrates the Canadian landscape using images inspired by Canada's national treasures and botanical wonders. Dilan Doty the Artist that created this genius idea of bringing together knowledge from her degree in Architecture, and her love of nature to share her passion for this awe inspiring space we share. 

Dilan goes on road trips to gather her material, her sketches, and studies of how our world is transforming before us; into beautiful arrangements of complex leaves, rocks, water and trees. They begin to translate for us into a truly calming spiritual space that enriches and enlightens. It is about the experience, the small details, and the emotion that brings Leaves of Canada together. 

Doty understands the power these natural environments hold. From her background in Architecture, to her experience with many design firms; she manipulates these natural places to become simple explorations of our truly glorious nation. It is about how we feel about being Canadian. A place to continually learn, grow, and celebrate our deeply personal originality, where we can stay connected with the natural world around us.

To Connect with Leaves of Canada:

https://www.leavesof.ca/

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Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Andrea Berger an award winning Canadian landscape and floral painter, has been able to capture some stunning moments across our Southern Ontario landscape. With deep colours, tones and exquisite textures she has discovered the quiet within and loves to share her discoveries.

Challenging herself recently with Plein Air painting and confining herself to 20 minutes has heightened her awareness, piquing her interest, and her attunement with nature and the wonder in everyday spaces. Peeling back the layers to reveal something unexpected. Knowing every journey is unique to each Artist, Berger keeps exploring interiors and cityscapes.

Searching out these hidden and obvious gems around us, Andrea is delighted to share what drives her to push herself creatively in her mediums, her compositions, and what she can leave out to communicate an effective story. Currently following an Artist that is producing fabulous art at 103 - that is part of the wonder and joy.

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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As a Korean Canadian Artist Christine Kim lives and works as an Artist and Arts Educator North of Toronto. Drawing her entire life, she crystalizes her digital and analogue modes of operation into intricate gestures. Understanding the stars as narratives, weaved on threads by storytellers throughout the years. Christine traces the lines from these structures, collects these stars; while inventing her own imaginary constellations and narratives in paper portraiture. 

Examining the surface, shape and volume of concealing and revealing the figure; Kim incorporates the interplay of layers and shadows. While the viewer is shown glimpses of calmness, fragility and quiet. Working with watercolour washes, thick paper cutouts, both loose, loud, and meticulous. Kim creates exciting challenging puzzles that need to be solved in her large scale installations.

Join Carolyn Botelho as we discuss Christine's fluid practice, how it blurs the lines of professionalism, and what her paper orbs emerged as one sleepless October evening. What does her teaching art brings to her creativity? How she plays off extremes, what participating in Nuit Blanche is really like? And everything in between her multi-layered unfolding journey of method, relation, and tradition, that is veiled in paper thin constellations. 

Connect With Christine at: https://www.christinekim.ca/

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

(*Mise en place (pronounced "meez-ahn-plahs") is a French term that translates to "everything in its place." It refers to the practice of preparing and organizing all ingredients and equipment before starting to cook.)

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Exploring her Jamaican roots this multi-disciplinary Artist Georgia Fullerton will astound you in all the unique roles she intersects. Inhabiting and traveling through many positions and perspectives as a visual communicator; Georgia is actively encouraging creativity in a wide range of community members. From women's groups, homeless shelters, youth group, to long term care facilities and local school districts. Enhancing creativity, is also part of the healing journey

Being involved in multiple community groups, art therapy, writing, movement, drama - all ways to encourage creativity in community members. Georgia is sensitive to the relationships and emotions that surround and divide our social constructions. Moving within her abstractions into figurative and sometimes portraiture; Georgia is exploring her creative practice as she navigates her local neighborhood, assisting her neighbors in finding their creative energy. Using her skills to encourage and shape the groups she has networked over the years.

Establishing herself in the Durham region as an Expressive Arts Therapist has led to some interesting and serendipitous encounters that have encouraged and enlightened her way of life. Trauma is always within reach, and from this she unearths the awareness of creative change. It is how you interpret, process, and engage with it creatively is the spark Georgia carries with her. She understands the challenges this path has, and greets them with honesty and overwhelming warmth and compassion.   

Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Georgia Fullerton: 

https://www.instagram.com/createmyartstory?igsh=eW0wZ2ZvMXZsZWg3&utm_source=qr

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Join Carolyn Botelho in the second part of her interview with Noe Kuremoto. Symbolism and ancient stories from her Japanese background, Noe admits to abandoning when she was younger. Now through her experiences in life she recognizes them as real totems, or talismans to help guide us during life's difficult and challenging moments. 

Creating a life for herself and her family in London, UK. Noe has found the opportunity to build a studio in Lithuania in a national forest. Understanding her roots have mostly been surrounded by urban luxuries. The challenges piqued her interests to focus in on having more family fun, rather then the comparative ideologies floating around in the city core.

Noe shares her creative practice more succinctly to a point where she sees what is slightly askew around her. She feels the cues, translating them into writing, drawing, video, and ultimately clay. Where she communicates how the soul of the city is metaphorically wounded. She offers her sculptures as answers to what may be symbolically missing from our lives.

To connect with Noe Kuremoto: https://www.noekuremoto.com/

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Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Establishing himself as an interdisciplinary Artist Blake studies the Canadian landscape in a way that would surprise you. He uses what he sees in the rocks, the trees, the water, and everything around him, to create another image. One that contains multiple pictures that broaden the imagination of everyone that comes into contact with them.

These prints, paintings, photos become a tool that when displayed in shops, galleries, and ultimately individuals homes create a dialogue. Guests and family members discuss what they see, how they see it and all that it conjures up. They become stories in themselves. Something to share both at home and in the community, people begin to help each other see these hidden images. Asking questions, and sharing their vision.

Blake stumbled across this technique while illustrating an assignment at Sheridan College, in Oakville, Canada. Attempting to visualize how he felt while painting and listening to music it stirred up the idea of identifying search and find images outside. He studies these images for hours to find these secret animals and shapes. Finding some of his greatests inspirations here. 

Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from Blake Richardson
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Blake Richardson: https://blakerichardson.com/

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Speaking with Toronto based Abstract Expressionist Artist Gwen Tooth we take a deep dive into her practice on how she assimilates her travels into techniques in her toolbox; how staying with teachers too long can change your creativity in ways you didn't expect, and how she never thought art school was for her - when ultimately she went later on to three different institutions. 

Join Carolyn Botelho as she discusses with Gwen where her influences in Art really came from, how textiles, printmaking, and even playing a variety of instruments played a part. When does she decide the painting is complete? How do memory and visualization work together? And what gave her the initial inspiration to take her down this artistic path?

Working backwards Tooth describes her early years with her mother and all that she learned from her, how sewing, and even copying calendar pictures, were part of the fabric that made her creativity what it has become today. Reflecting on all the tools she has gathered over the years from her Mother's hands, workshops, galleries, and classes, to fellow students, and friends. 

Gwen's wealth of knowledge she unfolds for us methodically in this discussion on her practice, her process, and what few rules she sticks to as she breaks the rest; while she holds thousands of landscape snapshots  in her psyche nearly ready to be revealed to the world in her next exhibition.

You can enjoy more of Gwen Tooth art here:  https://propellerartgallery.com/members/gwen-tooth/

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Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Exploring the culture of construction Artist Julia Campisi reworks and rewrites how we see things in our everyday world. Primarily being known for her collage work Julia shines a new light on overlooked objects and gives them a new identity. One that reveals itself in unique ways. Orchestrating her interdisciplinary skills to new depths using design, photography, collage and sculpture to create a new narrative on our built culture of self and why we exist.

With a background in photography from Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Mcmaster for Political Science. Campisi reshapes our ascribed environments and changes the lens we're used to. Refocusing it into absurdity and fantasy, she draws you in to question the ideal or feeling, and allows it to live as a stand-in alongside our built world.

Known for her lace like collage work, Campisi repurposes and uses industrial motifs, with daily tools like resin and acrylic to convey the necessary translucency from their tactile nature. With her fragmented collection of images she cultivates and challenges how images migrate culturally, our future uncertainty, and the  commodity of beauty.  

Connect with Julia Campisi: https://www.juliacampisi.com/cv

 Podcast Credits:

Interview -Carolyn Botelho/Julia Campisi

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Coming from Lebanese roots O'hara Kamis has a uniquely original perspective, and she loves every minute of it.  Especially her groovy lifestyle that she has created over the years on various landscapes she has called home. Using her love of research and detail she throws herself into every new medium she encounters, from shoes to jewelry, to phone cases and apparel. There really is no limits she sees to her creative capacity

O'hara has a vibrant fun loving personality that shines through her work. Creating captivating bold pieces that resonate with her community. Being a self taught Canadian Artist has its benefits, while she embraces her Pop art influences, she draws her audience in with her energetic kaleidoscopic universe.

Living in Vancouver B. C. Canada has had some profound influences, O'hara sees herself expanding her market internationally. However family keeps her local for now. Her confidence to take on new challenges as an Artist are inspiring when you browse her online content. Her community of commissioned pieces has given her an anchor, however she sees the potential abroad and will keep it in mind. 

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Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with O'hara Kamis:  https://www.staygroovycreations.com/

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Growing up with Artists around her home in Japan Noe absorbed the artist lifestyle of gathering meaning, understanding the objects and relationships have a larger context. She learned early how to become an academic artist. How to use classic materials. She gained the education of Contextual Art at St Martin's College in the United Kingdom. Switching gears into motherhood she returned to basic mediums of earth, air, and fire she found in clay.

Listening to her personal cues and the gossip in the big cities Kuremoto heard the unease of the working class. Taking solace in her family, and her practice Noe took a leap out of her comfort zone, and started building a studio deep in a forest in Lithuania. Here she can gather her inspiration from the quiet.

Abandoning her culture over the years, Noe recognizes how important myths and stories are metaphorically to the here and now. She sees the sadness and desperation, weaving her perceptions into figurines that hold a symbolic meaning to everyone who sees them. Many of her sculptural pieces resonate on a deeper level, protecting us today, while they dance amongst the shadows from the ancient world.

Noe Kuremoto Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Noe: https://www.noekuremoto.com/

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Being a self-taught artist has been empowering for Andy Kittmer. He has been passionate about drawing and illustrating since he can remember. Comics drew him in as a youth, which led to graffiti and even connected him with automotive designs and detailing. 

His art career has come full circle, bringing all of these influences together. Kittmers' paintings illustrate the fusion between graffiti, comics, and the automotive world, thus creating a new language that is both symbolic and uniquely poetic.

Moving freely as a traveling artist deeply set in his ideals on family and community has given Andy a distinct approach to his creative practice. He anchors himself in his passion for storytelling while pushing the envelope in abstraction and colour combinations. Join me as we do a deep dive into his creative development and career. 

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Hunting down driftwood is what Artist Damian Agostini describes himself as doing. When asked what he does he says he wakes up and he goes out and plays. He gets up really early, eager to make his whimsical sculptures of animals and furniture. Made entirely from objects and pieces of wood like driftwood he finds along the lakeshore in Toronto or in Trinidad, his other home.

Sharing some candid moments of how the public reacted when the city of Toronto asked him to move his sculptures from the Humber Bay shores. The reaction of the public was unbelievable at how incredibly supportive and moved they were by his sculptures. From laughing, crying, hugging, to gifts of food, drink, clothing, and money.

Damian has seen what a profound effect he has had both in Trinidad and Toronto, Canada. How both communities are incredibly grateful, yet in distinctly different ways. Agostini reflects on how he started as an amateur in school, had a career in making ice rinks for many famous and wealthy families in their yards. His family takes care of the business, allowing him to continue doing what he loves. 

Damian Agostini Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Damian: agostinidamian

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Exposed to both American and Canadian landscapes has enriched Erica Hawkes' creative practice in unique ways. Following the flowing hills and rugged coastlines of the west coast has inspired her to create masterful compositions that have combined two distinct styles into one  perspective.

Being able to blend and merge the techniques of the Group of Sevens' impressionistic style and the dynamic energies and colours found in the early modernist ideals of Art Nouveau. Erica creates a sense of magic with her Artwork. Explore these new perspectives that she transcribes to us with a sense of painterly inquiry that highlights and moves us into a new way of seeing our Canadian countryside. 

Hawkes has the ability to give us a new way of portraying our Canadian landscapes in a truly original way. This is refreshing and exciting; providing Canada with a new vision of our previously delightful Group of Sevenesque style, transformed into a new fusion of our glorious country in an original way. Truly magnificent. 

Erica Hawkes Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Erica Hawkes:

https://hawkesfineart.com/

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Creating psychological spaces that transcend reality using found objects, fabrics, and basically trash Emily Zou wanders amongst the myriad of mental and physical constructs that litter our landscapes. Both physical and emotionally Emily shares her mental health struggles. How they shape how she lives, and draw the energy within her to reshape what we throw away, she gives a new life.

Zou labored these thrown away items not simply by a straight trajectory at school. But rather a labor of anxious anxiety she found during the dark days of the COVID Pandemic. Where many Artists had an incredible amount of time to linger, reflect, and try new creative avenues. While at the same time she was discovering her own sadness, Zou transformed it into a useful energy that she wrapped, and combines to create huge sculptures of reclaimed items to have a visionary new beginning.

Twisting and refashioning her creations repeatedly. Her creative practice becomes therapeutic, creating a sense of release. A physical and emotional remapping and reawakening of the materials she uses. They create a new dialogue of semblances and shapes; colours and shadows that becomes a magical new language that reinterprets our world as it is today. From the climate crisis to more personal items that take on new meanings because of their new context.

Emily Zou Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Emily Zou:

https://emilyzouart.format.com/contact

Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Being a Canadian Landscape Painter Marie Neys has been fueled by the West Coast and the rolling hills of Alberta. She admits to finding her practical side and her creative side have a unique balancing act going on. One that pulls her every time she needs to be creative. She has an urgency to create in her studio. One that she has transformed into a professional and prodigious space of teaching.

Incorporating her passion for the outdoors into her love of studying mediums; Marie challenges herself constantly to achieve a beautiful moment in time. She has always been drawn to creating. Her landscapes are those moments of beauty that are found on Bowen Island. A small island North West of Vancouver, British Columbia.

When Marie walks along the Cape Sea Walk on Bowen Island, down to the beaches of Tunstall Bay. This is where she gathers her inspiration wandering amid the many trails that are amongst the towering cedars, hemlock and Douglas fir. Arriving at the Bay Marie often watches Orcas, Humpback whales, and Herons play.

Enjoy more of Marie Neys Art: marieneys.com

Marie Neyes Podcast Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Searching out the quiet spaces is what Lori Ryersons' photography is all about. Being a Fine Art Photographer, opportunistic Photographer, or whatever passes by her aperture she says candidly. Lori looks for the obscure and hard to find quiet. Places that are increasingly hard to find in Canada's biggest city Toronto; where she calls home is incredibly noisy. Finding these quiet places is often where humans are not.

When she manipulates, and distorts, using various tools that the camera has at it's disposal, Lori is able to create a myriad of images that the average person would be dismayed that a camera can accomplish. Using landscapes as one of her focuses she is also a generalist.

Generating her connections with these spaces that allow viewers when they see her work to breathe a sigh, almost as if the space created gives them space in themselves. A place within to really contemplate and well breathe. Ryerson creates spaces for people to contemplate, and really feel. A stunning moment that everyone needs to think and reflect.
 
Lori Ryerson Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Lori Ryerson:
www.loriryerson.ca

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Bev Morgan hunts down the vision and excitement she feels when the light flows through her explorations. She is primarily a watercolour Artist finding innovation in nature, on an adventure, or painting en plein air. Bev's passion for teaching resonates with her students because she instills her passion for Art appreciation.

She encourages and enjoys the opportunity to inspire others to pick up a paintbrush. Developing over 100 lesson plans in a variety of mediums Morgan shares her enthusiasm for travel with her fellow tourists  to excite and motivate their imagination into new ways of constructing their inner visions.

Join me as we take a deep dive into  Morgan's creative process. How did she find her way into teaching on excursions around the world? What are her thoughts on Art education? Do rules help or hinder creativity? What are her influences? Do they change with location? 

 https://bev-morgan.pixels.com/ 

On-line classes: https://www.udemy.com/user/bev-morgan/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistBevMorgan 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bev.morgan.watercolour.artist/ 

Interview Credits:

Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Hugh Gardner joins our show from a unique vantage point. Perched on top of the musical peak of being a Saxaphone player, a Visual Artist, and being involved with the theatre scene in Eastern Ontario. This gives him a rhythmic, visual, and dramatic advantage. 

Join me as we take a deep dive in understanding what got him to this very point in his career creatively. Was it the love of music that put him in this direction? Was it working with his hands? Or expressing himself impromptu on stage that was the key to moving him in this direction?

Gardiner shares his journey in this creative submersion. Does he come up for air? Or is he completely immersed in this artful avenue? Hugh gives us some anecdotes that are both endearing and captivating. Our discussion raises some interesting parables between the audio and visual worlds; how they merge and stand separate at the same. Where are the boundaries? Are there any? Who knows how to blur them effectively?

Connect with Hugh Gardiner: https://www.artshubbrockville.com/hugh-gardiner

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Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Describing her background as Scottish bagpipes and high tea Laura Beaton's creative practice fuses distinctly Asian cultural styles with her Canadian heritage to create an authenticity that is uniquely her own.

Join me as we take a deep dive on where Laura found her initial inspiration, how it has transformed over the years, and what continues to motivate her creative practice. This combination of techniques and painting skills has an intense structure rooted in perfectionism. 

How has Laura found her trajectory in the Art World? Has her distinguished skills resonated locally and in China? How has calligraphy played a part in her practice? Does she illustrate books with her Chinese brush paintings?
 

Enjoy more of Laura Beaton art: https://www.laurabeaton.com/

Podcast Credits:
Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Alan K. Joe – Author of ‘Of Ox and Unicorn’

https://www.amazon.ca/Ox-Unicorn-Immigrants-Story/dp/1947939106/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12605QGUD4EOV&keywords=of+ox+and+unicorn&qid=1644419270&sprefix=of+ox+and+unicorn,aps,81&sr=8-1

Asian Arts & Culture Trust - www.aact.community/about/about-aact
Mississauga Arts Council - https://www.mississaugaartscouncil.com/
Sumi-e Artists of Canada - https://www.sumieartistsofcanada.org/
International Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Paint Society, North America   https://www.iccpsna.com/ 

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Join me as we take a deep dive with an Artist who is said to be breaking all the rules of colour. Yaw Tony an Architect, Artist, and Graphic Designer that also has an extensive fashion line. What are his boundaries with colour? Does he have any? What inspires these rich and wild designs of intricate and bizarre stories? They are flooded with intensity of pure hues and symbolism. 

Yaw Tony has a unique perspective with these three disciplines he weaves his own interpretation of contemporary values with his cultural heritage that shines brighter and bigger. We go beneath the surface to uncover where Yaw's inspiration really lies. 

Where do his artworks take us? Is it the stories he wants us to understand, or is it the meaning behind his colour choices? What is his story-telling really communicating to us? Or are they interpretations of ancient allegories or legends? Can we use them today to change our lives?

Enjoy more artwork from Yaw Tony:

https://yawtony.com/

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Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Painting thousands of paintings, having public artworks involved in Hollywood productions, and being a frequent lecturer are just a few of the tools Sutherland has used over his three decades of being a Professional Artist in the Toronto area. 

Being a prolific Artist is whats his creative practice has become. Kirk Sutherland doesn't know it any other way. It is a meditative state of flow. As an experienced Colourist and Abstract painter, that has for many years seen things differently with Synesthesia. Where he craves colours in the middle of the night because he tastes them with his mind.  This isn't something strange, it is merely how he understands his world. 

Join me as we do a deep dive on Kirk Sutherland's influences, how he understands his imagination, teaching, and his world around him. What professors influenced him while he was a student at OCAD during what he calls the golden age of learning.    

Enjoy more of Kirk Sutherland's Art on his website:

https://www.kirksutherland.com/about

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Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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As a German Dadaist artist, Hannah Höch was a pioneer, going places, as she was using mass-media images in collages to create new, subversive imagery that was political, social, and engaging for all those who came in contact with her work. 

Höch challenged the norms of the time by bringing printed images together that were controversial. Gender, women's rights, and a female debate were in her wheelhouse. Höch manipulated images to create new narratives that challenged how people saw gender, social constructs, identity, and political discourse. She painstakingly cut images from newspapers and print media to layer and paste new ways of seeing.

Join me as we discuss how she developed artistically from the First World War and beyond, what she had to do to survive the wreckage of the times, and how the mediums she pursued helped carve out her place in history as a dominant force to be reckoned with, how we owe her meticulous nature to photomontages that depicted her life experiences and challenges with her identity, a nod of recognition, as she has shaped our own desire to work with print to inform our creativity and continue to push boundaries.

For more on Hannah Höch: https://www.zenmuseum.com/en/finder/page/who-is-hannah-hoch/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hannah-Hoch

**Man and Machine is a study of watercolour, gouache, and pencil on paper from 1921 in a private collection

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Being a Canadian new media Artist means Kezleigh's creative process is always changing, and forever floating.   Her unique form of expression sits ready to fly from the layers of inspiration she cuts and molds into works of paneled plastic forms flowing like textured depth.

How did her imagination arrive at this creative place? Join me as we uncover her drives, her motivation, and what exactly inspires these forms to emerge? Was it her design experience? Or her education? Life growing up in Muskoka, central Ontario? Or did these experiences weave to influence her practice?

Expressing herself through memories and dreams, organically her work comes together in digital nuances projected through various programs; that finalize with tweaks in her tiny studio. Mapping her panels with a specialized print shop she inks her way to a 3D look that jumps into fluid integrity and nostalgia.

You can enjoy more of Amy Kezleigh artwork on her website:
https://www.kezleigh.com/

Podcast Interview Credits
Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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David Brown is an alchemist, from the humblest sense of the word. He uses the furnace of  the imagination to create a quiet loudness from encapsulating some of Canada's urban centres into sensory illusions of time and space.

Having an award winning international career in Design and Art for 30+ years Brown graduated fom Ontario College of Art and Design University.  His encaustic paintings of crisp edged abstractions of translucent conscious thoughts, resonate with engineering exactness and childlike amusement. 

Join me as we take a deep dive on how these found objects, paired with these paintings, become sacred windows to the invisible temple of the mind. What is his creative process that crystalizes this form of expression? What triggers his imagination into sharing these secrets so modestly with everyone?

You can enjoy more of David Brown artwork on his website:

https://artistdavidbrown.com/

Podcast Interview Credits
Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Being a self taught Artist Lynden Cowan meticulously creates wild landscapes with highly detailed scenes. Finding solitary amusement as a child Lynden used scrap wood as canvas; making her own paints from dandelions, berries and vegetables. By the grace of teachers gifting her supplies - as kitchen pots were no longer suitable, her talent blossomed. 

Growing up in Brampton, Cowan returned to painting during a time of family sorrow. Fashioning her style after her memories of Nova Scotia where she was born, maturing every Summer by spending it with her Grandmother in a rural atmosphere.  This idyllic setting was the perfect opportunity for Lynden to hone her craft. 

To develop her style in both landscape and architectural subjects. As well as be a true entrepreneur starting her own Art school at the age of 16. Where did she gather the courage to start these amazing projects? Was teaching in her background? Was the gifts of art supplies the incentive to share her new skills with her students? Was her incentive ultimately the breathtaking landscape from her home on the East Coast?

You can enjoy more of Lynden artwork on her website 

www.lyndencowan.com

 or 

https://instagram.com/lyndencowan

 Email is lynden@lyndencowan.com

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Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Edward Moffat a decidedly unique photographer on the local scene. Describes his work as not for everyone, as nearly naked often disturbs the mainstream in ways that are peculiar. He connects with his models and has an understanding. It is what is comfortable to expose, to share, to divulge to the eye. 

Being a freelance photographer has had its ups and downs but Moffat has found a niche with his love for capturing nature both in the human body and the outdoors. Specifically he is fascinated with unusual perceptions, cropping techniques and layering negatives.

Join me as we go beneath the surface of his creative process to discover what drives Moffat to capture his innovative photographs? Was it being given a camera at a young age? Or was it teaching other Photographers how to operate a camera that intrigues him?

You can enjoy more of Edward Moffat Photography on his website:

https://www.edwardmoffat.com/

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Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Callie Gray gravitates her creativity into bursts of joyous abstractions rich in energy and spontaneity to make your heart sing. She is an award winning international Artist that has found a spiritual connection in Art that transcends experience into a unique understanding of the world around her.

Join me as we take a deep dive into her creative process, her inspirations, her insights, and what triggers her into finding her innovative sense of style. Is it her mindfullness or her fascination? What is it in the act of creating that truly motivates her?

Originally from Nottingham, England Callie shares her thoughts on how city to rural life impacts an Artist creatively. How does it influence your technique, subject, and even palette? We discuss her influences from art history, and how Gustav Klimt stumbled into our context of her roots artistically.

You can enjoy more of Callie Gray artwork on her website:
https://www.calliegrayart.com/

Podcast Interview Credits
Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Callie Gray:

https://www.calliegrayart.com/

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On today's show we have the multidisciplinary Graphic Designer, Photographer and Artist Gordon Moss. With years of experience Moss shares with us what inspired him down this path. How does his love of music play a part in his creativity? Has he found a platform for the two fields to balance each other? How has he seen Graphic Design change over the years? What made him decide to develop his creativity into more of an Artistic stream rather then the Design path in more recent years? 

Join me as we go beneath the surface of Moss's creativity and how he actually became a designer. Was schooling his first choice down this road? What gave him the impetus to make this choice? What was it like starting out in Graphic Design? Was it competitive? How did design change over the years? Gord Moss shares his experiences in the design field, what were the obstacles? How does he see Graphic Design changing in the future?

Seeing himself as a Designer, Artist, Musician, and Photographer Moss is inspired by everything in front of him. He loves the challenge of learning new technology. Keeping him sharp; he has collected his experiences, from beginning at the beginning of computer design - and how it has shaped his creativity to aspire to a genuine direct honesty in form.

Podcast credits:
Gord Moss - Music Clips
Carolyn Botelho - Podcast

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With us on today's Podcast is James Flux a local Artist who claims to be madly in love with the creative spirit. He was involved with the Night and Day Studios, then a director for Beaux Arts Brampton, and now has found his footing in both Vortex paintings, street Art, and scripting thoughts precariously around the city and social media. We will take a deep dive into how this came about shortly.

But first lets  go underneath the fabric of his creativity to find what got him here in the first place. Join me as we discuss his inspirations, insights, and innovations that keep him on this path. James Flux is a Brampton Artist that cultivates his creativity within, and with this I mean within the human natures of those he surrounds himself with. This definetly needs unravelling.

You can enjoy more of James Flux artwork on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesfluxartist/

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Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Being a Graphic Designer has been an exploratory career for this Creative Professional. Graeme has been a director of a Toronto Art Gallery for over a decade, and has now found his footing internationationally in Mexico. What led him to bringing his innovative business south of the border?

In this podcast we dive deep to discover what is behind the fabric of his creative practice. What drives him, what made him choose this direction in the first place? Join me as we uncover what influenced his style to use reclaimed materials? What does working with Artists really entail? How much has his creativity inspired others in the process? 

Join me in this Podcast where we learn how Creative Directors think beneath the surface of the gallery ensemble. Where did his roots in being an Artist originate? How does Graeme see the transgression of his career over this last decade? Did he see changes in the Toronto Art Scene? Was the Hashtag Gallery a part of it? How did the ebb and flow of creative styles in the city influence his practice? Or the Artists in his rooster?

You can enjoy more of Graeme Luey art: https://www.artsy.net/artist/graeme-luey

Podcast Interview Credits:
Sound Effects from Pixby
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Graeme Luey:

https://www.instagram.com/instagraemeluey/

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Speaking with Toronto based Abstract Expressionist Artist Gwen Tooth we take a deep dive into her practice on how she assimilates her travels into techniques in her toolbox; how staying with teachers too long can change your creativity in ways you didn't expect, and how she never thought art school was for her - when ultimately she went later on to three different institutions. 

Join Carolyn Botelho as she discusses with Gwen where her influences in Art really came from, how textiles, printmaking, and even playing a variety of instruments played a part. When does she decide the painting is complete? How do memory and visualization work together? And what gave her the initial inspiration to take her down this artistic path?

Working backwards Tooth describes her early years with her mother and all that she learned from her, how sewing, and even copying calendar pictures, were part of the fabric that made her creativity what it has become today. Reflecting on all the tools she has gathered over the years from her Mother's hands, workshops, galleries, and classes, to fellow students, and friends. 

Gwen's wealth of knowledge she unfolds for us methodically in this discussion on her practice, her process, and what few rules she sticks to as she breaks the rest; while she holds thousands of landscape snapshots  in her psyche nearly ready to be revealed to the world in her next exhibition.

You can enjoy more of Gwen Tooth art here:  https://propellerartgallery.com/members/gwen-tooth/

Gwen Tooth Podcast Interview Credits
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Join Carolyn Botelho as she takes a deep dive with her first Artist on inspiration, perspectives, and what it takes to be truly authentic.  What being true to yourself means; why she likes people not liking her art, and the challenges of finding spaces to show her creativity.

Talking with artistic professionals like Claudia Dorey is a real enlightening process because they have allowed me to see thru the windows into their creative process that can go unnoticed or unrecognized; when they can be  essential. We need to nourish our innovation. These are gifts that need to be inspired regularly. Whether it is writing, drawing, reading, cooking - there is creativity in everything we do.

On the Creatively Speaking Podcast we enjoy the candid conversations with these professionals.  Feeling as if we are looking behind the magic curtain, revelling in this truly personal intimate space, that in itself is another creative arena. A place where we discuss the intricacies and details within the actual practice of inventive proliferation. 

Claudia Dorey Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

Connect with Claudia Dorey:

https://www.claudiadoreyart.com/

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Relaunching a delightful artist interview, Noe Kuremoto shares growing up with Artists around her home in Japan.  Noe absorbed the artist lifestyle of gathering meaning, understanding that the objects and relationships have a larger context. She learned early how to become an academic artist. How to use classic materials. She gained an education in Contextual Art at St Martin's College in the United Kingdom. Switching gears into motherhood, she returned to basic mediums of earth, air, and fire, she found in clay.

Listening to her personal cues and the gossip in the big cities, Kuremoto heard the unease of the working class. Taking solace in her family and her practice, Noe took a leap out of her comfort zone, and started building a studio deep in a forest in Lithuania. Here she can gather her inspiration from the quiet.

Abandoning her culture over the years, Noe recognizes how important myths and stories are metaphorically to the here and now. She sees the sadness and desperation, weaving her perceptions into figurines that hold a symbolic meaning to everyone who sees them. Many of her sculptural pieces resonate on a deeper level, protecting us today, while they dance amongst the shadows from the ancient world.

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Jean Martin, a Quebec-based artist, loves working outside; he admits that 90% of his work is made in this energetic space. Jean shares his multi-disciplinary practice with us and explains how he began his creative practice as a child. When he was introduced to other media, and what sparked him to take certain paths in his creative journey.

Deciding to take further studies in art at Concordia University's BFA program, added additional talents and enhanced skills to Martin's practice, which allow him to develop and refine his layers of creativity. He has had nearly thirty years of education, combined with being self-taught, in the art and design field.

Winning first place in a recognized art competition early on fuelled Martin to continue exploring his creativity further. Join me as we discover how Jean introduced new media into his practice, what they symbolized, and how they have driven his energies toward greater focus and nuance as his creative career has thrived. 

Connect with Jean Martin: https://www.jeanmartinraven.com/

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Betty Goodwin's depictions of the human body, suffering, and the passage of time resonated with me when I discovered her at the Manitoba Gallery. These haunting images spoke to me in ways I wasn't familiar with. I was incredibly young and foolish at the time. I was on an adventure crossing our country to the West Coast.

When I saw Goodwin's mysterious works, she drew me in with those lines, that density, that complexity pulled me in, and hasn't let me go ever since. Even to this day, when I see artwork inspired by her on the walls of Toronto's Union Station, I am reminded of her encapsulating nature. She is a genius of dark metaphors and decisive yet fluid ambiguity.

Join me as we go deep into her world as a creative. What inspiration brought her to this precipice? How did printmaking become her focus? How did she learn to decipher her intensity to create these masterpieces? Was she influenced by anyone in particular? Or was her style unique and original? What drove her to become an artist in the first place?   

Union Station Mural: Zones of Immersion by Stuart Reid

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It has been about a month since I have launched a pod. I thought I would apologize. I realized that was silly, so I decided to share what exactly happened. Tell you, devoted listeners, what I have been up to, what has distracted me from interviewing local creatives. 

I have created a lineup of artists to interview all the way into mid-summer. I am looking forward to it tremendously. Some interesting people are coming up that I share in this podcast. Some are from art history, some are unusual in the fact that they bring artists together. Another publishes interesting small-press works. Another is a sculptor sculpting unique forms North of the Niagara region. 

And finally, a multi-disciplinary artist called the Raven, whose assemblages scream city with inscriptions of poetry and street language that vibrate with the vigor his urban sculptures inhabit. Join me as I describe what actually happened last month to knock me off my insanely focused trajectory of bringing you bimonthly interviews with local creatives.

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Being in the right lane was always on Lex's mind. Knowing she wanted to be an Astronomer as a child was part of the challenge in knowing where she wanted to be; the only problem was difficulty with Mathematics. This didn't phase Lex, it made the goal more appealing.  

They are a graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design University's Criticism and Curatorial Practices, with a minor in Fine Art and Mixed Media. Focusing on finding the smallest joys in our everyday life, which reconnects our inner child to our current selves.

Lex's curatorial practices have ranged from numerous shows from TOAF, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto Society of Artists (TSA), the Archive of Ontario, and OCAD Emerging Drawing and Painting Students. They have had a lengthy career as a Critic with articles in Academic Journals, Artist Magazines following exhibitions and events, including Nuit Blanche, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the artist-run centre Propeller Gallery. Lex's writing circle around gender, sexuality, societal conformity, philosophical concepts, and individualization.

To connect with Lex: https://www.lexbarrie.ca/

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