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.

Growing up in St Thomas Ontario  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.

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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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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/

Podcast Credits:

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

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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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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/

Podcast Credits:

Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
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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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 an 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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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/

Podcast Credits:

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

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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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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

Audio credits:  http://www.freemusicarchives.com

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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. 

O'hara Kamis Podcast Credits:

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

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

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