S2 EP 22 - Interview with Anastasia Fedorova
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Anastasia Fedorova is an award-winning Ukrainian Canadian painter. She creates beautiful multilayer oil paintings using the traditional Italian technique impasto. All of her multilayer oil paintings have a thick and rich texture. The main subjects of Anastasia’s oil paintings are conceptualized landscape, cityscape, and floral pieces.
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S2 EP21 - Interview with Anastessia Bettas
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Anastessia Bettas is a Toronto based, Canadian visual artist and an expert in the use of encaustic paint. Anastessia’s encaustic abstract pieces connect the urban developing world with the world of art. She uses grid to portray urban sprawl, loss of open space, and imaginary territories. Her work can be admired in various commercial and public galleries throughout Canada and the USA.
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S2 EP20 - Interview with Amanda Wand
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Amanda Wand is a Toronto-based abstract intuitive painter that uses painting to process her lived experiences and emotions. She does not plan her pieces, instead, she allows her vulnerability to lead the way. As a prolific painter, this process creates multiple authentic works representing the full spectrum of human emotion. Every piece is an extension of her subconscious and they all hold certain energy and message.
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S2 EP 19 - Interview with Emilie Darlington
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Emilie Darlington is a freelance illustrator, painter, and muralist. Most often working with big blooms and bright colours, Emilie’s botanical murals can be found throughout Canada. Emilie’s botanical and abstract series are aimed at creating a targeted sensation for viewers, whether it be by scale, distortion, or immersion. These qualities are intended to evoke a shared experience for viewers and are tailored for each piece to induce a desired emotional response or mental state.
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S2 EP18 - Interview with Grace Croughan
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Grace Croughan is a Japanese-Canadian artist who works in acrylic and pastels. She especially loves to build up textures for her signature style in acrylics and is really enjoying creating her Mountain Dream Series of paintings.
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S2 EP17 - Interview with Manaz Raiszadeh
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Manaz Raiszadeh is an American artist and explorer who has been exploring and discovering our world and herself through art. Referring to herself as an "intuitional abstract painter," the genesis of her artistic inspiration comes from her parent's tale and her Afghani cultural background. Manaz often depicts houses and villages in her compositions, as she believes that "we can all relate to the place where we are from". She creates her works using acrylics, pastels, and collages on canvas or wood.
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S2 EP 16 - Interview with Kim VanDerHoek
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Kim VanDerHoek creates vibrant, textural oil paintings of landscapes and urban scenes in her Southern California studio. She learned to paint by painting en Plein Air as it combined her love of being outside, creating art, and studying from life. Kim feels that she was able to gain a better understanding of the effects of light and atmosphere and she aims to translate those effects into her studio paintings. Currently, she is working on a series of paintings documenting iconic bridges across the U.S.
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S2 EP15 - Interview with Ella Mazur
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Ella Mazur creates art traditionally with pen and ink, as well as digitally on her iPad, often combining the two. Her work is continually inspired by the great diversity of our planet, creatures and plants that inhabit it, by the ocean, the forests, the mysteries of the stars in the sky. With just a little bit of ink, Ella can tell stories about those things, and she hopes that they will make people pause and wonder, let you escape into an impossible world, or awaken your curiosity.
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SE02 EP14 - Interview with Robin Crofut-Brittingham
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Originally from Western Massachusetts, Robin Crofut-Brittingham work is inspired by mythology, science fiction, and current events, and examines human relationships with the natural world. She works primarily with watercolor and gouache on paper from her studio in Montreal. She has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Canada.
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S02 EP13 - Interview with Katrina Elena
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Katrina Elena is a self-taught oil painter from Toronto, Ontario. She is continuously inspired by the natural world, currently the endless power of water. Katrina is known for her realistic depictions of seascapes through the process of observation, photographing, and translating those memories onto canvas. She sets out to capture organic movements and transient moments in her work to create space for the viewer to connect with a recognizable yet ephemeral subject matter.
info_outlineDarlene J. Winfield is an award-winning Canadian artist whose work is held in several private and corporate collections. Art to Darlene is a way to communicate without words, a universal language she enjoys. Darlene’s style is representational while at times leaning into semi-abstract. Darlene resided in Mexico and Indonesia for many years and spent extended periods of time in Europe going to historical sites and art galleries. She was constantly sketching and dreaming of oil painting during that time. With the opportunity to finally oil paint large scale, Darlene immersed herself into her life as a full-time painter.
Her work has been showcased at various locations and art galleries in Ontario. Darlene has been juried into numerous shows including the Artist Project and the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair.
Learn more about the artist here: https://www.darlenejwinfieldart.com/.
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