Creatively Thinking With Carolyn B

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/

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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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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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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