Beyond The Frame - A Propeller Art Gallery Podcast

Today on Beyond The Frame, the last episode of this season...
Our very special Host/Artist/Art Educator Doris Purchase, invites us into her unique visual world of conceptually subversive 'Inversions' through her discussion on the tactile process of 'Unmaking'.   
With a hopeful look to a green future and a re-examination of  'what art is',  Doris employs previously ignored  recycled materials, and reconstructs them into challenging, yet contemplative works of art.

Today on Beyond The Frame,  Expressionist painter and Mixed Media artist Tracy Thomson discusses her earliest influences from Canadian Landscape painting, to the explosive creativity of the Queen St West art scene, as a young OCA student.  
Today, her reconstructed paintings allow her to lose all sense of gravity and “walk into the unfamiliar”.  

Today on Beyond The Frame, we visit with Hyper-Realist Photographer MoSo.  
Discover the initial inspiration behind his love of storied, ’old school’ photography.  
Listen in, as he shares his contemporary digital printing secrets on ‘special papers’ that mimic the evocative darkroom effects of Silver Halide paper.  
With a surgeon’s eye and the heart of an artist, MoSo captures the essence of what he sees and feels, while travelling the globe.

Today on Beyond The Frame,  Artist Frances Patella takes us on a magical trip through space and time, as Red Tailed  Hawks hover above!   
Her evocative hybrid process of double exposure photography employs the use of carpentry tools, paint and the 19th century Gum Bichromate process, to convey transitional images of the Lands and Forest restorative “Controlled Burns” program.  

In this week's episode of Beyond The Frame, Multi Media artist Andres Vosu talks about “flow” and  how his work shows an “interplay between human activity, ideas and community”. With irreverent humour and a Dadaist perspective on the absurd, Vosu explores the idea of human frailty and vulnerability, through a mix of mediums including; video, collage, found objects and drawing.  

Today on Beyond The Frame, we welcome ‘Plein air’ oil painter Lisa Johnson, whose emotionally charged landscape paintings evoke the raw truth, with a gut-felt immediacy to them, that can only be inspired by immersing oneself in nature.  Art history, Music and her time as a dancer, all lend a hand informing her luscious markmaking.
“It is about the questions, more than the answers”.

Today on Beyond The Frame, we talk with Surrealist and Automatiste painter Heejae Jo.  Influenced by Duchamp and Matisse, her vibrantly coloured, multi media assemblages, reference her dreams through intuitive markmaking, which is free from tradition and joyfully subversive.  

In this episode of Beyond The Frame, Portrait artist Leah Probst takes us on a journey into the magic and mystery of Heightened Realism.  Her exquisitely detailed acrylic paintings offer a meditative exploration into her subject’s inner life, as well as her own. To her, process is key and she believes she was “put on this earth to make art”

Today on Beyond the Frame, we hear from Sharron Corrigan Forrest.  A material based, Impressionist artist, who loves to “drip, drag and play” her way through evocative works, inspired by the macro and micro plantworld of Northern Ontario.  Her oils and encaustics contain a rich, textural inner light, embedded with nature’s debris and metallics, providing a quiet contemplation.

Today on Beyond the Frame, painter Behrad Motekallem discusses his vividly rendered, evocative work.  
Imaginative interpretations of his perspective of the world, dance in oil on canvas.  
Latin music, the discipline of creating daily, and trusting one’s instincts, all play an important role.