Creatively Thinking With Carolyn B

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 graffit...

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...

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...

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 Unive...

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 thos...

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 interesti...

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 min...

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 illustrato...

           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...

         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 longe...

         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...

          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...

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 ar...

         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 D...

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...

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 be...

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...

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...

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, piqui...

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...

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 lo...

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. No...

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...

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...

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...