Barbara Reade lives right beside Lake Ontario in the heart of downtown Burlington. The windows of her my studio space look out on a sweeping vista of sky, water and all the urban elements that make up her vibrant neighbourhood. Barbara’s palette is often influenced by the colours that she sees with a mix of natural hues, highly saturated pigments a…

Happy 1st Anniversary!!! It’s hard to believe that the podcast is a year old. What started as an idea has evolved into great conversations with artists from across Canada and around the globe. The podcast has now been downloaded in over 26 countries and continues to grow. Thank you to all the artists and individuals who have continued to support th…

Nicole Kagan is a multi-faceted visual artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa and based in Toronto, Canada. Deeply inspired by the natural world as a reflection of the interior human experience, her works are layered and lush, thoughtful and evocative. In her making practice, Nicole thrives on the freeing sense of experimentation and alchemy tha…

Sometimes as artists we forget the importance of the creative pause to refill our creative well. Recently I took a mini vacation to just get away from everything, and it got me thinking about the importance of getting out into the world to explore new ideas, find inspiration and just breathe. Here are 5 ideas which I go into on today's episode for …

Sarah Brodie has found a brilliant way to write off all her art and office supply purchases by becoming an art therapist. She went to Canada’s one and only english language graduate studies program: getting her Masters in Art Therapy from Concordia University in 2005. She beefed up her studies with post-graduate specialization in child development …

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. An elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists (Lifetime, Mentor), Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Ontario Society of Artists, and the Portrait Society Of Canada. Andrew was a contestant in the finals of Landscape Artists Of The Year Canada Competition; episodes can be…

Andrew Scheglov is a Toronto based figurative painter. Born in Russia and raised in Israel, he currently lives and works in Canada. His education includes a diploma in Classical Animation from Sheridan College in 2005, a year long apprenticeship with Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum in 2007, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of…

Kaitlin is an award-winning artist who uses multiple layers of coloured pencil to create her trompe-l’oeil fabric drawings. Leaving the wood exposed adds an additional element of organic detail, which is unique to each piece. She enjoys playing with light and shadows, in an attempt to transform an otherwise mundane item, into a sculptural entity. C…

After a career in television and cinema in the 2000s, Pascal Normand has devoted himself since 2009 to the creation of his pictorial artwork. Independent and self-taught, Pascal has participated in artistic events such as the New Art Festival in Ottawa, the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TAOF) and MTL en Arts in Montreal. In recent years, Pascal’s work …

Originally from London, Tara Leaver is an artist and teacher living by the sea in Cornwall, England. After completing a Foundation Diploma in London in her early twenties, her regular art practice took a back seat to travel and various forms of employment, including six years teaching Montessori. She was also dealing with recurring bouts of depress…

Born in Windsor, Ontario, Laura Peturson holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. With a practice situated in printmaking, drawing and painting, Laura’s works combine multiple print-based techniques with a handmade aesthetic. Laura lives in Callander, Ontario, and teaches printmaking, painting, and drawing at Ni…

Victoria lives and paints in Hamilton’s James North art district and cottages on the edge of Algonquin Park and enjoys hiking and paddling the natural spaces of Ontario’s north, be it Muskoka, Algonquin, Haliburton, Kawartha, Madawaska or the length of Bruce Trail. The contrast of sky to rocky cliffs, grand pines and idyllic islands make for great …

Jorn Schmidt grew up in Germany, where he studied Philosophy. Jorn moved to Canada in 2005. His first contact with screen printing was in Berlin, where he tried to support himself during his Ph.D studies. He would sell t-shirts and other things on the weekend at a local flea market. The first t-shirt Jorn ever designed and printed depicted the Phil…

Delio Delgado is a Dominican-Canadian artist based out of Hamilton, Ontario He has a BFA in multidisciplinary studies from The National School of Visual Arts in the Dominican Republic. Delio also graduated from the Altos de Chavon, The School of Design which is affiliated with Parson’s The New School of Design in New York City. Delio also has compl…

Join me from my studio as I talk about the Artist - Life balance. After a busy week full of events, podcast recordings and studio engagements, I spent a little time reflecting on how best to manage my time without feeling burnt out. So, what does it take to be a full time artist? How do I find balance between teaching, my art practice, recording a …

Peggy Taylor Reid is a photographer using both a traditional and an alternative lens. Her work encompasses constructed photographs, concepts, and the natural world. She holds a BFA from the University of Ottawa and a B.ED from the University of Toronto. She is an educator, and a long-time member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, an…

Cole Swanson is an artist and educator based in Toronto, Ontario. Through a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and materially-focused practice, he explores interspecies dynamics evolving in the anthropocene. Cole has exhibited works in national and international institutions on four continents and is two-time arts fellow through the Shastri Indo-Can…

Heather Horton’s work focuses on internal states, contemplative narratives and often has a personal connection to her own life. Heather was born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. She attended McMaster University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Heather then went on to graduate from the well-respected Interpretiv…

Sandra Tarantino received a Bachelor of Fine Arts through the Ontario College of Art and Design in Drawing and Painting, a BA at York University in Psychology and a Bachelor of Education at Western University. She has actively participated in the artistic community as Co-Founder and Director of C1 art space from 2004-2011, AWOL Gallery and Studios …

“My job as an artist is to see and translate my visual and emotional moments into pieces that allow the viewer to see, feel and be in my moments giving the viewer pause to reflect on moments in time that I cherished, frozen in pigments.” - Clarence Porter Clarence Porter worked in the Toronto advertising world as an art director/freelance illustrat…

Michelle Harton (b.1983) is an Irish artist who works mainly in acrylic and water soluble drawing materials. She has studied art at Fermanagh College in Northern Ireland, classical portraiture and figure painting and drawing at the private art school and international arts colony Studio Escalier in France, plein air painting with David Mynett in Ma…

Hello to all my listeners and thank you for your patience. If you're new here, I had a bit of a hiatus from the world of podcasting. So after a three month break from recording I am finally back. Listen in as I explain what happened, where I have been and why I had to put everything on pause for the past three months. Also, I will give you a sneak …

Lois Schklar's work has been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States. Her sculptures are in the Racine Art Museum, the Bronfman Collection, Claridge Investments, Idea Exchange Art Gallery and The Key Corporation. Lois has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council. Most recently, she …

Kelly O’Neill is a sculpture/ installation, multimedia and textile artist who lives in Selwyn, ON. Working with assemblage and text, video and projection, and incorporating traditional textile methods with unconventional materials, Kelly creates objects and experiences that explore the fluidity and impermeability of embodied experience. Kelly’s wor…

Sharifah Marsden is Anishinaabe (Ojibway) from the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation in Ontario. She began painting and doing beadwork when she was about 13 and was taught by her mother, who was also a painter. Sharifah connected with elders in her community and began doing leather work, crafting moccasins and regalia. Then she took course…

Since 2009, Chrissy Poitras and Kyle Topping have been hosting a vibrant community artist residency and printmaking studio in their rural Ontario farmhouse. Spark Box Studio has welcomed over 400 visiting artists from around the world who have come to find time and space away from their routines to focus on a variety of arts ranging from painting a…

Andrew McPhail is a Canadian visual artist. He was born in Calgary Alberta in 1961 and studied at York University where he received his MFA in 1987. Living in Toronto in the 1980's and 90's his work focused primarily on drawing, often with pencil crayon on a polyester film called mylar. After moving to Hamilton in 2005, his interest shifted towards…

Kim-Lee Kho is a Brampton-based multidisciplinary artist, and longtime designer, exploring personal experience as a gateway to broader human concerns. The bi-ethnic daughter of a scientist and an artist, Kim's process and interests combine both influences, in sometimes unexpected ways. A member of The Red Head Gallery collective since 2018, she pre…

Joanne Poluch is a well-established art consultant in Southern Ontario. She holds an Honours Degree in Art History from the University of Guelph and a Diploma in Art Marketing from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. Joanne enjoys a quick paced and multi-faceted business which includes working with private and corporate clients to source and se…

Annis has been the Executive Director of Visual Arts Mississauga since 2014. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Goddard College and a Masters of Education from OISE/University of Toronto. She has had an eclectic work life in small and medium size businesses and not-for-profits. Her early days were in theatre, she was Administrative Director of a…

Drawing inspiration from aerial views of cities and maps, James Fowler's acrylic, oil and gouache works on canvas, paper, and wood are playfully geometric and resonate with the digital world, and culture of online information distribution. His non-traditional landscape paintings borrow from cartography and geometric abstraction, and celebrate both …

Keila Strong is a self taught artist from Chicago IL. She is best known for her distinctive abstract portrait style, and her booming use of colour. Favouring acrylics; Keila paints thought provoking pieces, with underlying messages of hope and compassion. Influenced by the Cubist art movement and her Christian faith; Keila makes inner connections a…

Kim Lee Kho and Kal Honey are Brampton based artists and long time soul-mates who initially met through their careers as graphic designers. After closing their Graphic Design Business Eye to Eye Design in 2009, they spent a year travelling North America in a camper-van. Upon their return they refocused their life on art and art instructions. Today,…

Amrita Virdi is a painter and a collage artist. She creates abstract expressionist paintings and adds collage to them to create surrealist narratives. She has taught painting, drawing, and sculpture for the past 8 years. She enjoys sharing her process with others and creating spaces for others to create with confidence. During the pandemic she has …

Christine Montague is an award-winning Canadian artist, a portrait painter turned polar bear artist. Her dramatic polar bear portraiture paintings show a bear that is intelligent, powerful and muse to themes of wonder and hope, even under environmental threat. During her time in her Halton Hills studio she created her first polar bear painting in r…

Kal Honey began his career as a Graphic designer. Kal Honey was creative and obsessively detail-oriented from an early age aways drawing, building models, doing embroidery and photography. After attending Northern Secondary School’s specialized art program in Toronto, Kal went on to become an award-winning graduate of the Ontario College of Art. Af…

Marie Payne is one of the founders and currently the president of Arts on the Credit - a nonprofit arts organization providing opportunities for local Greater Toronto artists to show and sell their work. Marie has had several past lives including 35 years as a primary public school teacher, 30 plus years as a textile artist focusing on weaving and …

REINHARD REITZENSTEIN, the eminent Allegorical Minimalist has inverted trees and immortalized moments in the history of the natural world in bronze since the mid 20th century. His permanent bronze works are situated in public and private gardens across North America and Europe. Although Reinhard’s work is not political, every time Justin Trudeau en…

William Huffman is an arts administrator, curator, educator and writer with a history of extensive involvement on both local and international cultural fronts. Currently working between its Toronto and Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), Nunavut offices, he leads the national and international operations of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative and its n…

Lila Lewis Irving has an MFA in FINE ART from the University of Wisconsin. She has been in numerous exhibitions, including two at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Lila’s work has been widely collected in both national and international collections. Along with her exhibition history, Lila has an extensive teaching career in Ontario and Quebec with ov…

Lydia Swanson is a collage and mixed media artist who resides in Burlington, Ontario. After a long career in public education, Lydia turned to the arts to express her creativity. Lydia has exhibited in numerous shows, and has served on numerous boards, committees and art associations in both Mississauga and Burlington. Join me today as I chat with …

Canadian Visual Artist, Lisa Jayne Irvine shares with you her concept for her new podcast. Through conversations, Lisa plans to explore the many facets of the art world with artists, art professionals and industry specialists.By Lisa Jayne Irvine