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Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BAlbert Slark Episode #4: Portrait Of An ArtistBeing an award winning artist is one of many roles Albert Slark inhabits in his multifaceted career. Beginning with an interest in drawing superheroes Albert began exploring classical painting and drawing, he graduated from Alberta University of Arts. He continued taking classes at Michael John Angel, and even studied with Max Ginsberg in New York privately. Slark started working as an illustrator and began illustrating for ads for commercials, video game ads, and Sci-Fi covers. This led him to finally start illustrating paperback covers in a myriad of different genres from adventure to western to romance. He h...
2026-02-191h 05
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BAlice Vander Vennen: Humble Beginnings of 3 Dimensional Poetry Episode #3 Alice lives a quiet life up in Cobourg Ontario, Canada. A life that has tremendous beauty from the landscapes that surround her every day to the moments that transcend and transport her within her peaceful life. Meeting this wonderful artist I simply had to have a chat with her about her incredible work. Work that speaks volumes with subtlety, sharp curves and silent warm hues. This is the power behind our overwhelming backdrop known as the Canadian outback. Join me as I take a plunge into the imagination of Alice Vander Vennen - an Artist recently purchased by Mark Zuc...
2026-02-0440 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BJacques Descoteaux Shining Through: Episode #2 Jacques background is accounting, while his passion is art in a multitude of mediums. Practicing his craft for 25+ years he has woven an intricate tapestry of artwork that has a range many would be intrigued by. He loves the process of working with his inspiration - where he grew up in Northern Quebec, and the places he likes to travel. Inspired by landscapes, although the longer you look at these compositions the more you begin to see the thin layers that he uses to 'have the images create themselves.' That the layers he applied previously shine through the...
2026-01-211h 12
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BMy Fascination With Dali: Episode # 1 I discovered this genius in high school, or was it somewhere in the collective consciousness that I saw his melting clocks? I’m not certain, but I know when I found this eclectically strange human with his peculiar moustache, his Spanish background, I was hooked. At the time I was getting into the band The Doors, and Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception, Brave New World, and The Perennial Philosophy. It was an electric time of innovation and industry that was buzzing and thriving with creativity during a very traumatic political period. Let’s take a deep dive on these Arti...
2026-01-0711 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BAnne McAlear: Shape Shifter Episode #20 Exploring Art for 50+ years has proven to Anne MaClear that painting will always have it's challenges, and new ways of seeing. MaClear looks to find unexplored avenues to go down that provide new opportunities. Having the educational framework in her bones of numerous classes ranging from pastels, oil stick, embroidery, encaustic, wax, oil, and textile to name a few. From her admiration of fellow Artists Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell - two pioneers from the Modernist art movement; more specifically Pop, and Abstract Expressionism. MaClear punctuates her practice with flourishes from these two Artists. So subtly and pervasivel...
2025-12-151h 00
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BMy Obsession With Warhol Episode #19How did I fall into this obsession? It really was an accident, something I never intended. When I studied Art in high school there were so many artists that fascinated me. Mainly from the modern art movement. I remembered Andy Warhol's soup cans and silkscreens; but they weren't anything special.It wasn't until much later that I realized we had similarities that went beyond any artistic technique or style. My family was in no way similar to Mr Warhola's religious upbringing - far from it. My family is very British. What we shared is a little horrific. ...
2025-11-1408 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BBeverley Daniels Episode #18 Part 2: Big Weave Beverley Daniels Part 2 goes deeper into discussing how she has explored and developed her technique as a multi-disciplinary artist. In the last decade she has been focusing on dissecting and combining found objects. Allowing them to share the space almost that can sometimes result in an argument, they are separated until they can sit comfortably together. This is the area that Daniels loves to be involved in. It's the energy, the movement, the discussion between the mediums, how they relate, how they speak to each other to say what cannot be said. It becomes more than what it appears...
2025-11-0143 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BBeverley Daniels Episode #17 Part 1: Blue CityBeverley 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 plastics, Using materials destined for landfills: ribbons, lawn signs, scrap vinyl upholstery, old film. Cutting, weaving, and gluing or fusing them. This was originally an Ecological anxiety, now Daniels prefers them. I...
2025-10-1538 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BCarolyn Botelho Episode #16: OCAD ReflectionsThis 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 to go behind the scenes, undercover, into the inner circle of the imagination.What really touched...
2025-09-1414 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BLibby Hague: Episode #15 Every Heart Can Grow BiggerHaving 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.Born in St Thomas Ontario, and growing up in Montreal, Quebec; Libby has been creating sculptures and stories of contradiction, violence, love, death, disease, and vulnerability. Moving f...
2025-08-151h 10
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BLibby Hague Episode #15: Every Heart Can Grow BiggerHaving 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 g...
2025-07-3048 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BLeaves Of Canada Episode #13: Oak Leaf LineLeaves 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...
2025-07-1621 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BAndrea Berger Episode #14: Golden DreamsAndrea 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...
2025-06-3035 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BChristine Kim Episode #11: Stranger To MyselfAs 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, f...
2025-06-161h 02
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BGeorgia Fullerton Episode #12: Dance of CongruenceExploring 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 journeyBeing 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...
2025-06-011h 08
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BNoe Kuremoto Part 2: Episode #9 Hearts Still Beating Souls DepartingJoin 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 o...
2025-05-1548 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BBlake Richardson Episode #10: River Of LifeEstablishing 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...
2025-05-151h 11
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn B****New Memorial Intro**** Rerelease Gwen Tooth: Walk Them Around In My HeadSpeaking 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 t...
2025-05-011h 09
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BJulia Campisi Episode #8: I Want To Eat Your SkyExploring 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...
2025-04-161h 04
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BO'hara Kamis Episode #7: Powerful BeginningsComing 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 capacityO'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 C...
2025-04-0232 min
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BNoe Kuremoto Episode #6: Decoding Ancient Wisdom Part 1Growing 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...
2025-03-281h 11
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn BDamian Agostini Episode #5: Silhouettes of Driftwood CreationsHunting 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...
2025-03-1555 min
Southcoast Artists IndexPodcast Episode 200: A Milestone For Sure!Welcome to this special episode! Its our 200th podcast episode since Podcast Episode 1 was dropped on April of 2019. The first podcast was an overview of what we hoped to accomplish. It was followed by Podcast Episode 2 featuring artist and craftsman, Michael Pietragalla, who owns and operates Floating Stone Woodworks, a custom furniture shop in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Michael was our very first of nearly 300 overall podcast guests. In this podcast, The Artists Index's podcast editor, Ryan Nunes, takes the podcast host seat to introduce and speak with Co-Founders Jeff Wotton and Ron Fortier. He also introduces our...
2025-03-1054 min