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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 these objects into woven and fused p...

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 become an Artist interviewer. To want...

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 mediu...

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 ...

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 s...

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 cre...

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 an...

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 u...

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...

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 w...

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 ...

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

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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 s...

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 t...

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...

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 sim...

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 f...

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.
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Bev Morgan hunts down the vision and excitement she feels when the light flows through her explorations. She is primarily a watercolour Artist finding innovation in nature, on an adventure, or painting en plein air. Bev's passion for teaching resonates with her students because she instills her passion for Art appreciation.

She encourages and enjoys the opportunity to inspire others to pick up a paintbrush. Developing...