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.
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S02 EP12 - Interview with Brianne Burnell
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Brianne Burnell is a mixed media artist from Toronto, Canada. Her work is intuitive and explorative, more interested in the process of combining colors and shapes than executing a specific image. She combines torn hand-painted paper with acrylic and other media in a distinct uplifting color palette. In this process, she finds calm and softness, and this serene feeling is passed on to the viewer.
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S02 EP 11 - Interview with Heather Fraser
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Toronto-based artist Heather Fraser grew up in a small town in Ottawa. She worked in the financial industry and also completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at OCAD U, which included a year sabbatical studying art in Florence, Italy. Heather now paints full time. Her subject of choice has historically been the figure, but her recent body of work focuses on food and explores our sensual experience of food, including pomegranates, oranges, lemons, and tomatoes, burgers, ice cream, pancakes, and donuts.
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SE 02 EP 10 - Interview with Nadia Lassman
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Nadia Lassman is an international artist with showings in Toronto, New York, Miami, and Scottsdale, and her work has appeared in Vogue, House & Garden, World of Interiors, and House of Coco magazines. Lassman's work reflects the happiness she feels, the beauty of nature, and her joy in traveling. Her contemporary take on Impressionism is created by adding depth to her romantic pieces with tactile, textured effects, which she achieves through the application of layers of pigments, sand, and gels.
info_outlineToronto-based artist Heather Fraser grew up in North Gower, a small town in the Ottawa Valley. After completing a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto, worked in the financial industry. During that time, she also completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at OCAD University, which included a year sabbatical studying art in Florence, Italy. She graduated with distinction in 2013 with a degree in Drawing and Painting. Heather now paints full time, while also juggling two young daughters. Although Heather’s subject of choice has historically been the figure, her recent body of work focuses on food. Her paintings explore our sensual experience of food, including pomegranates, oranges, lemons, and tomatoes, as well as burgers, ice cream, pancakes, and many, many donuts.
Learn more about the artist: https://www.heatherfraserart.com/
Learn more about the podcast and podcast guest: http://curatoronthego.com/podcast/