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Wisdom at the CrossroadsPausing to CelebrateFifty is definitely cause for celebration for Wisdom at the Crossroads the podcast. This episode is shared with gratitude for all who are along for the ride: seeking, discovering, and finding pause within the noise of the busy lives we have chosen.
Your support and enthusiasm is appreciated.
Numerology aficionados would remind us that 50 signifies completion while also inspiring new beginnings. 50 offers an opportunity to reflect on the growth and evolution that has brought us to this present moment, while also inspiring us to trust our intuition and embrace the possibility the future holds.
2023-04-0418 minWisdom at the CrossroadsGrowth and a ”Spring Fling”Tis the season for new growth with spring hopefully on the horizon at last. A new season on the paint wall is allowing for experimentation, discovery and, dependably, colour.
Preparations for a “Spring Fling” at The Pulse Gallery in Winnipeg are shaping up to be the beginnings of a refreshingly colourful new chapter. Locals can join your host at The Forks April 1st, 2-4 pm. You’d be April foolish to miss it. NO JOKE! The show continues through till the end of the month.
The Mandart meditation that concludes this episode continues the theme...2023-03-2814 minWisdom at the CrossroadsWise Words: Presence“Each day is an opportunity to begin again, to forget the troubles of yesterday, to abandon our attachment to the promise of tomorrow.”
Getting quiet and being still sounds simple but it can actually be quite complex.
The queen of distraction gets lost and found in this episode. Organization may not be my forte, but it seems when I am ready for the words I have written while getting in touch with the deepest parts of myself, the universe will find a way for them to literally cross my path.
Rediscovering meditative notes on p...2023-03-2122 minWisdom at the CrossroadsInviting the WhiteThis episode is about embracing the season where a Canadian winter, wind sculpted snow banks, and variations on a white theme inspire a reflective trek.
In a world of white, we dive into the magic of the landscape on a day where boundaries merged with atmospheric change to insulate the view. A view viewed through a window on the warm side of the glass thank you very much
Easy does it is the theme of our self care practice in this episode.
In a world where our only constant is change, we get...2023-03-1420 minWisdom at the CrossroadsArty FactsEvery journey begins with a single step.
In this one, we get a little primal, exploring first steps on some big new panels on the paint wall for an exhilarating trip through the process of marks and the making.
The legacy of creators through generations of history, thought, and process, became the focus of travels in real time through the Art Gallery of Ontario during recent travel.
How great is it to get out of town to explore art and history, to be inspired and curious and to make connections to the...2023-03-0718 minWisdom at the CrossroadsBurning with PassionWarm thoughts on the paint wall on a cold winters day take us on a visual journey.
Creative action invites some reflection as works in progress flow through the lovely subtleties of initial marks, only to crash and burn when judgement is applied. Add your own expletive here!
In the meditation, we repurpose those flames and take a stroll down memory lane to a crisp evening in the fall. The story leads us to pause around a campfire, to visualize the snap and pop of poked logs in a contained circle where we too pause to...2023-02-2818 min
Electric Ideas with Whitney Baker: Motherhood, Self-Connection, Joyful Living & Self-CareWisdom at the Crossroads with Amanda OnchulenkoSometimes it can take a drastic event to force us to stop and take stock of what’s most important to us. Maybe we finally slow down and take more time to be present with our loved ones. But what if you could start thinking this way without experiencing a major event? My guest today, Amanda Onchulenko, is a painter and textile artist, author of the book Wisdom at the Crossroads and podcast host. During the episode, she shares with us how the writing of her book started, the practices that inspired it and a remi...2023-02-2331 minWisdom at the CrossroadsGratitudeA new year for the podcast! This anniversary edition inspired a new beginning that starts and ends with gratitude.
Thank you for joining me in this experience of story as we pause to connect, to make ourselves available to the creative magic all around us through the action of slowing down
It was your curiosity that motivated me to visualize this virtual morning tea or afternoon coffee break. In choosing to be present for you I am reconnecting with my own need for stillness and for that I am grateful
Self care...2023-02-2122 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: Breathing SpaceLife is seriously too short to take ourselves too seriously.
Through our mindful moments we can learn to nurture the elements within us. In the creative process I find myself in a place where the world quiets around me and I am fully present. I guess really I have learned to take myself to a place where the action and presence meet.
In this episode, we open ourselves to getting our chi flowing and receiving the universal energy that supports us, wherever we are. It feels a bit like a cosmic embrace where we breathe...2023-02-1419 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: Process and PracticeDISCLAIMER: This meditative process may lead you to find the wisdom your soul yearns to share. Viewer discretion is advised!
I am a fairly private person and not generally prone to public vulnerability yet i am the Mand in this mindful MANDart moment where I invite you behind the curtain to experience the magic of process as it is revealed.
This episode is all about personal practice. In it I step way outside my comfort zone to share the written meditative process I use to access the wisdom at the crossroads where action and presence...2023-02-0713 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: PresenceTake a break…Kit Kats are purely optional.
The meditation in this Mindful Mandart Moment is a guided journey to an incidental green space dappled in pockets of sunshine. There’s a little elemental magic involved in getting quiet and becoming aware of all things small in our natural environment.
Today's self care break is all about allowing ourselves an opportunity to pause and spend a few minutes in our own company, because, we are definitely worth it! Join me as we engage in a moment of respite and allow haste to dissolve succinctly into ease...2023-01-3114 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: Sanctuary WithinCelebrate the power of intention with this self care pause
Red is one of my favourite colours. I appreciate the resonance of quinocridone red light (try pronouncing that one with an accent on a podcast). Though painting quiets my soul, I am strangely attracted to the screaming nature of particular shades of Pyrole.
These lovely reds seek attention like noise in an airport so by association the grounding quality of red inspired the sanctuary building meditation in this episode.
This self care pause is definitely one for the books. It celebrates the power...2023-01-2415 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: The Healing Power of RestENJOY THE HEALING POWER OF A RESTFUL MOMENT HERE.
I am excited to be sharing what I am calling a ten pack of Mindful Mandart Moments with you. The meditations that usually pair with the back stories of studio practice have come to the foreground to help us to be more and do a little less in the hectic lives we lead
This meditation this episode explores an experience of landscape. It is an invitation to enjoy a restorative moment inspired by memories of connection to an iconic “place” and to be comforted by a conn...2023-01-1714 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: Active Stillness with a Labyrinth WalkLet's get actively still.
The meditation in this episode of Mindful Mandart Moments pairs action with stillness and takes us on a contemplative visual journey.
The labyrinth, in existence for thousands of years, is usually a compact journey that winds its way to a contemplative centre and unfurls as it returns us to where its curved path began. So far in our meditative practice together, we have paused to contemplate and reflect as we have taken time for ourselves at the end of each episode on the podcast.
I thought a labyrinth walk...2023-01-1017 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: Renewal and a Chakra CleanseThis renewal comes with a chakra cleanse.
In this Mandart Moment of Mindfulness, colour was the inspiration that initiated a visual journey that grows and glows through the chakra column. The chakras form a column of invisible energetic support common to all of us. There are 7 chakras that form this internal column beginning with the root chakra at the base of the spine and rising to the crown chakra just above the top of our heads.
Becoming aware of the properties of our chakras can help us to consciously align ourselves with our greatest potential...2023-01-0317 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: AbundanceLess can be more when we discover abundance.
Mindfulness has become a mainstream term in recent years. The practice of paying attention is what I like to call it. By being mindful we can help ourselves to pause and be present. When we are present in our own lives we can make ourselves available to all of the magic available to us through the action of slowing down.
In this episode of the Podcast we are bringing the meditation to the foreground to help us to find our own rhythm where nothing is forced, nothing...2022-12-2715 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: GrowthWE GROW IN COMMUNITY and this self care episode is all about growth.
Mindful Mandart Moments continue with this episode that brings the meditative practice to the forefront. This instalment was inspired by a trio called “BLOOM” in episode 14. It is a guided meditation that inspires us to visualize the conditions we personally need to bloom, flourish and thrive.
Creativity has long been my road to presence and so with this meditation I invite you to experience my thought process in action. In it we continue the journey to connect to our world, to experience wher...2022-12-2016 minWisdom at the CrossroadsMindful Mandart Moment: Acceptance
This episode is all about acceptance.
I am excited to be sharing what I am calling MINDFUL MANDART MOMENTS in episodes 34-44 in the podcast. The meditations that usually pair with the back stories of studio practice are coming to the foreground.
With open palms, this one is all about ACCEPTANCE.
In this first episode of mindful moments, we are encouraged to be mindfully present. The meditation offers an opportunity to rest and inspires us with a visual description of the unseen support that surrounds us all all of the time.
It was actually the very first meditation I channeled as I be...2022-12-1315 minWisdom at the CrossroadsActive Still: PurpleStill life sounds a bit like an oxy moron doesn’t it?
For someone who struggles to colour in the lines, a little contained floral action can’t help but be big on personality.
What was once a ‘false start’ is now a studio companion with a cheeky personality despite her bland title, “Active Still : Purple”
Check out the expanded show notes and images of Active Still: Purple in my blog!
The Meditation
The meditation in this episode also pairs action with stillness and takes us o...2022-12-0622 minWisdom at the CrossroadsGeorgian Bay - Audience and ChannelTom Thomson and the Canadian Group of Seven were not the only adventurers and artists to fall in love with delicious destinations like Honey Harbour and Blueberry Island.
Listen in to todays episode to Channel the backstory of a pair of cousins inspired by a twilight boat ride through a quintessentially Canadian landscape.
Around every corner in Georgian Bay granite outcroppings, wind sculpted trees and quirky bunkies and boathouses connect generations of families to each other and to their summer destinations.
Check out the expanded show notes and images of A...2022-11-2925 minWisdom at the CrossroadsKaleidoscopeA backward glance inspired the name of this big bold square that came together like the magical arrangements in the colourful child’s toy. There is nothing childish about this confident shapely girl who fledged the nest early.
Check out the expanded show notes and an image of Kaleidoscope in my blog!
The Meditation
The meditation came about organically at my dining room table where it was unusually, recorded live. Quiet moments engaged in a simple repetitive action took me out of my own way as a composition with word...2022-11-2223 minWisdom at the CrossroadsResonance - The Kelly GangThis episode begins and ends with friendship and gratitude. Art and life evolve when we release our expectations and trust in the roundabout ways the world works. What is meant to be is always meant to be.
Check out the expanded show notes and an image of Resonance in my blog!
The Meditation
The meditation is 10 minutes long in this episode. Find it at 9:18 in the recording.
It is an invitation to join me on a late summer beach walk, to go with the flow of what the u...2022-11-1521 minWisdom at the CrossroadsFlow/100 Acre WoodGet your flow flowing this episode as we take in a transitioning season and journey down a new visual path where colour theory is just a theory.
Check out the expanded show notes and an image of Flow/The 100 Acre Woods in my blog!
The Meditation
The meditation that follows at 8:37 in the recording adopts the mantra:
“It is, I am, we are…” to remind us our only constant is change. It is a short 14 minutes of self care. I hope you’ll tune in.
𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦
Instagram: @mandart...2022-11-0824 minWisdom at the CrossroadsThe Healing Blanket ProjectThis episode shares stories of community and creativity and how the two came together to create The Healing Blanket Project, one thoughtful and colourful stitch at a time.
The story begins with the Healing Blanket post-pandemic as she fledges her nest and moves into Ronald MacDonald’s new house in Winnipeg.
Listen in on the podcast or read up on the blog to discover what happens when a delicate, white tulip grows 2 meters tall, and what supportive magic happens at the crossroads where action and presence meet.
Check out the expanded sho...2022-11-0128 minWisdom at the CrossroadsA Celebration of the Poppy (Red)We chat about the subjective process of commissioning art and the fact that a refreshed painting is one that was once finished, then finished again.
With a hint of whimsy and freedom, we are reminded how we interpret art depends on our perspective and what we are ready to see.
Check out the expanded show notes and an image of A Celebration of the Poppy in my blog!
Poppy + Root Chakra Meditation
The meditation Is a guided self care pause and definitely one for the books. It ce...2022-10-2524 minWisdom at the CrossroadsPier SupportWe’ve all heard the saying “it takes a village” and I am so grateful for mine.
In today’s backstory, we journey to a community of neighbours and friends along the western shore of Lake Winnipeg.
The area’s iconic swimming piers come into focus with the painting “Pier Support”. Art becomes a colourful off-season reminder of the value of our connections, to place, to ourselves, and to each other.
Check out the expanded show notes and an image of Pier Support in my blog!
Pier Support Meditation
The guide...2022-10-1819 minWisdom at the CrossroadsRiver ViewThis episode takes me back to a weedy incidental green space where I am reminded of the cyclical ways our journeys connect to our past and to each other.
“Riverside”, the focus of todays conversation, is part of the “Sweet Suite”, a series of small paintings that freely bloomed on panel this summer in the studio.
It is the result of my recent travels along the road less travelled, down memory lane that came full circle into the present. The process allowed for a lovely moment not looking back but pausing reflectively.
Check out the e...2022-10-1118 minWisdom at the CrossroadsBlue GumsThis story starts out with an intention that turns a blank canvas into a beginning. The episode touches on a compelling pair from the archive that puts personal perspectives into context and helps us to realize there are no wrong answers when it comes to art.
“Blue Gums” are the real star of the show. They evolved through a (challenging for me) less is more philosophy into a refreshingly simple composition and visual legacy.
Check out the expanded show notes and an image of Wonderland in my blog!
Blue G...2022-10-0425 minWisdom at the CrossroadsWonderlandIn this episode, we chat about the idea of ritual in the work of art where the intention of an action is key and nobody is sitting around eating cake waiting to be inspired.
“Wonderland” is part of a recent batch of paintings trending large on 4 foot panels. This diptych takes us on a journey through process, like Alice’s, but without the use of hallucinogens.
Music as muse helps to silence life’s noise and transport us to a crossroads where we are not lost but found, fully present.
Join in to di...2022-09-2720 minWisdom at the CrossroadsAn Everywhere of SilverAn Everywhere of Silver is the story of a winter landscape in a summer cottage. It is the story of a journey and adjusted expectations.
This little painting recalls an attempt to take to the road less travelled if only for a little while. It holds the story of a rained out adventure that ended with a gentle reminder and inspiration for a whole new body of work.
Check out the expanded show notes and an image of An Everywhere of Silver in my blog!
An Everywhere of Silver Meditation2022-09-2018 minWisdom at the CrossroadsCrossroadsWe celebrate connection in todays backstory. Connection to our past: relationships, spaces and places and end up in the present musing about imagination and a sisterhood evolving in vibrant colour on the paint wall.
With the example of “Crossroads”, a marker at the beginning of a new chapter in my studio archive, we are reminded that creativity is a powerful journey.
Marks made in expression are made in many mediums and sometimes might not be a physical action at all.
Life evolves.
Cast across distant memories our backward glances might offe...2022-09-1322 minWisdom at the CrossroadsIntrospectionEpisode 20 marks a milestone for me. The end of season 1 is less about endings and more about absolute beginnings.
The painting “INTROSPECTION” is 30” x 40” of 17-year-old me at the tail end of the Photo Realist era, blending yet not trying to conform.
This first major painting was a deep and thoughtful, painstakingly rendered, reflection on the developing self and the value of mentorship. The episode follows up with reflections on the supportive structures and people we seek and discover who help to guide us through the business of life and art.
This week...2022-06-2827 minWisdom at the CrossroadsShrinking VioletsThe jostling characters of this small but feisty composition, 13” x 14”, on panel, affectionately titled “Shrinking Violets" compete for attention and visual elbow room. In this fictitious perennial garden, more kitchen garden than formal border, vibrant colour grants an introduction to new beginnings that merge a path of discovery and experimentation with textiles and technology.
We learn the value of a good reading list and friendships; in life, art and business. We also discover that red is delicious no matter which way you serve it.
Join me to discover some creative magic along the road less travel...2022-06-2121 minWisdom at the CrossroadsBreeze at BayBe my guest in this episode at the edge of Lake Winnipeg where a breeze at the waters edge on the prairie keeps everything in motion. Inspiration is refreshing and today invites us on a journey through composition and colour.
An incidental green space where vegetation is allowed to wander and stray is always a favourite of mine. This one forms a billowing grassy vista that frames the view and inspires the painter within.
Incidentally we take a backward glance to the era of muscle cars and poodle skirts in search of summertime...2022-06-1420 minWisdom at the CrossroadsTurossThe backstory this episode leads to Tuross on the South Coast of Australia. Beaches here are so numerous they are numbered not named. Shell picking at T1 is a whale of a time and landscape in painting is a journey through memory.
A little golf action gets going on the aptly named ”Heart attack Hill”, with the killer view. Legend has it the brown snake of the second hole may not be mere legend, while the bounce from the green definitely is.
Coming home at the end of this tale we come home to the acti...2022-06-0721 minWisdom at the CrossroadsEm’s Blue Pair (Nostrum and Curative)Art, like music, plays a role as the backdrop or soundtrack of our lives. Today's introduction to “Nostrum” and “Curative”, a pair of 30” x 40” acrylic paintings on panel, were once given the cold shoulder. Now they offer a little bit of flexible colour magic and a balm for the soul in the depths of a Winnipeg winter.
Do you have a studio? Want a studio? This backstory may be a curative for any romanticized notion you might have dreamed. Unless you are attracted to heavy traffic, emergency sirens and a breeze on your side of the brickwork, that is.
...2022-05-3124 minWisdom at the CrossroadsPet PortraitArt imitates life and sometimes it documents it too.
Pet lovers unite as today we meet the cheeky cat brothers Rylands and Fletcher in a fairy tale of sorts.
The “once upon a time” leads us through torrential rain, to a job interview in puddling linen, onto a creative classroom filled with pre teens and carving tools and a drawer full of band aids. Seriously, I can’t make this stuff up.
We also get a glimpse of the colour reduction block printing process. In the backstory, we are reminded to always bring that b...2022-05-2417 minWisdom at the CrossroadsBloom 123Lessons of inspiration and creativity inspire change on todays episode.
A change of season might lead to a change of scale, but scaling down in size does not mean we are scaling down the visual impact.
There is a new trio evolving on the paint wall in real time. We learn a triptych is not simply an image spread out across three adjoining surfaces but an opportunity to explore 3 independent compositions
The gifting of art part is not something I recommend but a triptych named Bloom carries a similar se...2022-05-1719 minWisdom at the CrossroadsSide Yard BackyardA mixed media pair called “SIDEYARD / BACKYARD” are the stars of the perennial show in the lucky 13th episode of the podcast this week. (It's also a week with Friday the 13th!)
Together they introduce a hardy cast of perennial characters whose cheeky personalities take shape in chalk pastel and acrylic on paper.
We hear the story of friendship as it played out in the garden, learn a simple way to impersonate a deckled edge and get a glimpse of art history at work in the painters studio.
The visuals for these paintings can...2022-05-1022 minWisdom at the CrossroadsCocktail Hour: Strawberry MargaritaIt might not be 5 o’clock, but this episode inspires us to take a break for refreshments when work on the painting wall stalls. A casual observation inspires a winter series more beach babe than snow bunny, and a creative game that turned this painter's theory on its head.
Listen to the story of colour in the studio as an antidote to winter’s white and learn how a day at the office, at work, at play, trumps an actual job any day of the week.
And finally, If you come for dinner, you w...2022-05-0318 minWisdom at the CrossroadsBreathing SpaceBreathing Space inspires us to consider our home and how art can offer us comfort within the discomfort of transition. We are reminded big art expands not only our spaces but also our perceptions. The pieces we are meant to find sometimes find us down the way along a circuitous path.
The triptych, “Inhale: Exhale and Relax”, introduces perennial personalities and reminds us to invest in ourselves along the creative road less travelled.
The visuals for this painting can be found on my blog.
𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
The meditation begins at 10:54.
It was inspired by a dessert landscape in the middle of a no...2022-04-2628 minWisdom at the CrossroadsSinging the Blues“Singing the Blues" begins with a return to work after a break and a reminder that life is seriously too short to take ourselves too seriously.
We chat a little about taking on commissioned art and familiarize ourselves with colour stories. In this, we realize that the difference between old work and new work, is GROWTH.
We get a little CHI to flow in preparations for a new project, take a reflective look at works in progress and exchange criticism for critique.
“Singing The Blues” is a fresh little composition from the “Trespassing Series”...2022-04-1924 minWisdom at the CrossroadsPink at Ponemah“Pink at Ponemah” offers an invitation to park yourself on a sandy beach on a shimmery summer day no matter the season where you are. Today we step into Canadian cottage country to find connection in community. We take a pause, find ourselves pretty in pink and learn a simple way to leave our own marks on the world.
Visit my blog to view images of the painting and read the full transcript.
𝗣𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗵 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝗲
The meditation begins at 10:55 in the recording.
We get into the pink and seek to experience ease, to soften, together. We allow ourselves to dream and are encouraged to come back to o...2022-04-1220 minWisdom at the CrossroadsTown’s EndSupportive communities, circles of women and flexibility are topics of conversation on the podcast this week…and where would we be without them? In this episode, I invite you to find something of your story within mine as together we discover tranquility and presence in morning routines. We learn how less can be more as we reflect on simplicity and our connections to: place, to those around us and most importantly, to ourselves. With a limited palette, the view from “Town’s End” illustrates how art is definitely open to interpretation.
Find the blog post with images on my we...2022-04-0521 minWisdom at the CrossroadsYellow Head Sweet SixteenThis week on the podcast we reflect on family road trips and recall the gift of time to be ourselves. We learn creativity is mined from routine actions and chat about some of the painterly traits I commonly use. Sunshine yellow continues in the conversation about composition and inspiration in my work in art.
𝗬𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
The meditation begins at 12:40. With repetition and a short meditative practice we work toward opening ourselves to the wisdom at our core. Together we share simple ways to soothe ourselves when the waves of our real life experiences roll.
𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦
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Website: https://www.mandart.ca/2022-03-2923 minWisdom at the CrossroadsAfternoon ShowersThe featured pair of this weeks podcast, “Afternoon Showers” from 2008, are a celebration of a long ago date week and paint week. The pair bring sunshine indoors on even the coldest of northern winter days on the prairies.
They were inspired by an afternoon road trip during a prairie storm. They are a reminder that less can be more, firsts are worth remembering and that we are all happiest when we acknowledge our passions and make time to honour them.
𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Todays meditation starts at 10:55 and has a focus on bright sunshiny yellow. It was inspired in part by the buoyant orb of a rising full...2022-03-2221 minWisdom at the CrossroadsOde to TomThis week on the podcast we take a trip down memory lane where I introduce you to a mixed media painting on paper. From the earliest days of my studio practice.
“Ode to Tom” is a recollection of childhood memory, first visits to lake country in what was at the time, an unfamiliar yet quintessentially Canadian landscape.
We chat about my tendency to paint like a printmaker, about collage and the gathering of visual ideas and references for inspiration.
We see north meet south in the painting where universal flatlands...2022-03-1519 minWisdom at the CrossroadsPainted Ladies“PAINTED LADIES” are featuring on the podcast this week. They originate from Studio 311, in Winnipeg’s Historic Exchange District. This building is a grand old dame who was part of the exponential growth of Winnipeg at the turn of the 20th century. Winnipeg has her own identity despite being known then as both the gateway to the West and the Chicago of the North.
This neighbourhood with its historically preserved warehouses, stars in their own right, have shared billing with Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” was filmed j...2022-03-0822 minWisdom at the CrossroadsEnlightened at Beaver BayArt expands spaces and perceptions and becomes the background to family life.
In this episode we are encouraged to be mindfully present using the example of a large triptych, Enlightened at Beaver Bay”, 48” x 48”, 24” x 48”, 48” x 48” from (2008)
This painting was inspired by an invitation to Lake of the Woods, a quintessentially Canadian landscape rich in the foliage of poplars, dense with evergreens sculpted by the wind and populated with ancient granite outcroppings smoothed by a million seasons. The lake, at Beaver Bay hosts friendship and family in refreshing, deep, dark lake water at the centre of a continent. ...2022-03-0120 minWisdom at the CrossroadsPrairie GirlThank you for joining me on this podcasting journey! I am looking forward to sharing the backstories and process that have resulted in a master collection of artwork that span my career. I would like to start the storytelling with the pieces that have remained in my home and have taught me a lesson worth remembering.
Creativity has always been my road to presence. My work is generally colourful and semi-abstracted with a focus on the emotional connection. Though it may be inspired by a particular place, I have no desire to replicate the real p...2022-02-2317 minWisdom at the CrossroadsChild’s PlayMy studio may be much smaller than the 800 square feet I once had, but it is light, cozy and warm. My orchids and I appreciate the abundance of light and the river view that this space offers. The winter white scene includes skaters and other active members of the community embracing the cold weather.
𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺 is an 11" x 30" mixed media painting on water colour paper from 2001. It is from my early studio days and is a lot more representational than most of my work. I am trying not to be too judgmental of this work as it is from a particular plac...2022-02-2321 minWisdom at the CrossroadsWisdom at the Crossroads TrailerWelcome to Wisdom at the Crossroads podcast! I am Amanda Onchulenko and I will be your host. This podcast is primarily an invitation to join me on a creative journey. In it, I will be sharing insights into the backstories of inspiration that have become a catalyst for my work in art. I hope you will find the stories interesting but you don’t need to be a creative to listen in!
Together, we will aim to seek those ever elusive moments of presence in an increasingly busy world. Creativity has always been my avenue to presence.
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