Creatively Thinking With Carolyn B

Christopher Shoust has embarked on an unusually epic journey. As a digital creator, he is publishing softcover books with a specific criterion. Telegram Press is giving authors and readers a much wider variety of books. One that will inspire you to discover some new titles for your own library.

We discuss what led Christopher down this path, what intrigues him to continue, and where he has placed his creative practice in the background. Is it running alongside this publishing company? Is his work impacted by the authors he has in his catalogue? Or does he draw a hard line between the two?

Join me as we discover how a digital creator masters the art of small press publishing, making a difference for local creatives who struggle to be heard and seen in this ever increasingly competitive field. Christopher shows us the ropes of the inner workings of being a publisher and how he meets the creatives behind the scenes.  

To connect with Lost Telegram Press: https://losttelegrampress.ca/

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As an artist and scholar, Camille reimagines Black memory and the passage of time. She excavates hidden stories that permeate her own feelings of otherness. Leading to her famous alter ego known as Miss Canadiana. An Ambassador for Canada's mythical sense of multiculturalism. Allowing space to consider the meaning of being a Canadian individual. 

A hometown beauty queen for Hamilton, Canada, being Jamaican, raised mainly in Canada, she has never felt Canadian. Turner's immersive exhibitions continue to broadly explore Canada’s entanglement in the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans.  Examining Black diasporic memory, futurity, and afterlives of the enslaved has created and transformed audiences that have witnessed her interdisciplinary works. 

Join me as we discuss the memories, stories, and people that are part of our collective histories as Canadians. Camille Turner's portrayal of her Afronautic Lab, as well as different exhibitions, including the simulated advertisements of escaped slaves, explores the complexities of people and families who grew up in the areas she did, and what they experienced during their lifetimes.

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Exposure 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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