Curator on the Go Podcast
Welcome to Curator on the Go Podcast - a show for artists and art professionals who are ready to build a thriving art career and business while doing something they are passionate about. If you are ready to set goals, find your artistic voice, brand, and niche, understand how to price and sell your products and services, and change your life – you are in the right place! This podcast will also appeal to anyone who loves art and interested to learn more about the business side of the art world. Art and entrepreneurship are the two key things any community must have! My goal is to provide the environment that supports both and that will later help fund local art projects.
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SE03 EP31 - Interview with Amy Stewart
01/05/2024
SE03 EP31 - Interview with Amy Stewart
Vancouver-based artist Amy Stewart has been drawn to the interconnections of art, play and nature since her childhood in 108-Mile House, British Columbia, where she spent most of her time outdoors. That first northern home continues to dominate much of Amy’s current artistic world. The memories of childhood and nature shape her adult imagination, and they are reflected in her paintings’ rich textures and vibrant tones. Her pieces are often inspired by the feelings that come both from the natural world and from engaging fully in her community and with her loved ones. “I paint how I feel and who I am,” Stewart explains. And that sense of humanity—the private experiences of suffering and celebration—is evoked by her canvases’ unique explorations of colour, which range from exuberant bursts of brightness to contemplative reflections on darkness. Learn more about the artist . Learn more about the podcast
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SE03 EP30 - Interview with Bibiana Hooper
12/28/2023
SE03 EP30 - Interview with Bibiana Hooper
Canadian artist Bibiana Hooper lives in the beautiful Okanagan, British Columbia. She moved with her family from the city a decade ago to live in the country with expansive views of vineyards, orchards, lakes, mountains and sky. As a self-taught artist, she began exploring her skills in 2018 when she joined a collective art gallery. Bibiana's art practice is all about capturing the beauty of flowers and landscapes through a contemporary and poetic brush stroke. Her passion for nature shines through her with the flow and organic elements in everything she creates. Bibiana paints in her home studio and she's also an integral part of the Naramata Art Group. You can find her artwork hanging in galleries and private homes all around the world. Learn more about the artist Learn more abou thte podcast .
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S03 EP29 - Interview with Billie Rae Busby
12/21/2023
S03 EP29 - Interview with Billie Rae Busby
Billie Rae Busby is an award-winning contemporary artist who uses a precise hard-edge painting technique and colour theory to reinvent her surroundings. Her abstract landscape paintings evoke wonder and possibility by depicting mood, memory, movement and time. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she is inspired by both the complexity of urban architecture and the vast rural landscape. She strives to interpret ordinary places in a fresh, new context. Learn more about the artist Learn more about the podcast .
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S03 EP28 - Interview with Claire Crawford
11/30/2023
S03 EP28 - Interview with Claire Crawford
Claire Crawford (née Gaulin-Brown) is an artist and illustrator living and working in San Francisco, California. Claire uses surrealism and abstract tools to inquire about nature culture dualism as a place to imagine a post anthropocentric world. Learn more abou the artist . Learn more about the podcast .
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S03 EP27 - Interview with Andrea Soos
11/23/2023
S03 EP27 - Interview with Andrea Soos
Andrea Soos is well known for her playful abstractions that combine creative mark-making, patterning, and gestural application of colour. Working with a fresh modern palette, Soos’ paintings allow the viewer to freely journey around the canvas, enjoying the twists and turns of her engaging compositions. Although she may not know the outcome of the piece when she begins, the artwork evolves as a visceral and therapeutic practice, driven by music and song lyrics. Viewers of Soos’ work connect with the many visual entry-points and feel at liberty to apply their own experiences and history to the marks on the canvas. Soos lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also trained for her BFA. Soos’ work has been collected across Canada and in the USA, and works to release new series’ of artwork year-round. Learn more about the . Learn more about the .
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S03 EP26 - Interview with Jodi Miller
11/16/2023
S03 EP26 - Interview with Jodi Miller
Jodi Miller is a contemporary Canadian impressionist painter whose landscapes explore our sense of belonging and how we interact with our natural environment. She is a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force, following a 20 year career as an aerospace engineer working in aircraft maintenance and project management. Jodi pivoted to become a full-time artist in 2015, returning to the prairies where she grew up on a family farm. She now finds inspiration in the vast land and skies. Jodi paints in response to her time in nature and her work represents optimism where the artist sees metaphorical life journeys in the many paths carved out in nature. Jodi’s work has been recognized for “capturing Canadian identity through landscape” and she has been named one of “28 Contemporary Canadian Artists You Need to Know” by Create Magazine. Her work has been requested at shows across Canada and is held in private collections world-wide. Learn more about Jodi Miller . Learn more about the podcast .
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S03 EP25 - Interview with Jennifer Mohr
11/09/2023
S03 EP25 - Interview with Jennifer Mohr
Jennifer L Mohr is an acrylic and mixed media painter living and creating in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada (the traditional territories of the Treaty 7 Nations in Southern Alberta, and the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3). She began exploring visual arts in early childhood, later earning her B.F.A. in painting at the University of Saskatchewan in 2003. With a nostalgic palette, expressive, layered marks, and lingering, ground-level perspective, Jennifer’s paintings place the viewer within the landscape, allowing them to experience the beauty and complexity of self-reflection within nature. Her paintings are part of private collections across the globe and have been featured in publications, including Create! Magazine, The Jealous Curator blog, and the popular website, My Modern Met. Learn more about the artist . Learn more about the podcast .
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SE03 EP24 - Interview with Andrew Wang
10/26/2023
SE03 EP24 - Interview with Andrew Wang
Andrew Wang is a Toronto based mixed media artist. He has a non-traditional background, coming from two decades in engineering and business. He left this career 6 years ago to pursue art and has developed into a professional artist showing in galleries, art fairs and public art installations. Andrew uses meticulously folded origami objects to create large scale assemblages. He tells stories of individual journeys and migrations of previous generations. With his unique background, he draws on science and mathematics for his compositions and metaphors. Fluid dynamics, planetary motion and weather patterns are often seen in his work. Learn more about the . Learn more about the . I also want to share a new exciting art podcast called In/Tension. In/Tension, produced by Toronto-based The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, is a limited podcast series of intimate, thought-provoking and accessible conversations with emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary visual artists across Canada. Detailing the ideas, inspirations and experiences that fuel their art, In/Tension aims to shed light on the breadth of the Canadian contemporary art scene and provide a platform for diverse artistic voices to dive deep into their creative intentions. Learn more
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S03 EP23 - Interview with Cobie Cruz
10/19/2023
S03 EP23 - Interview with Cobie Cruz
Cobie Cruz was born in Manila, Philippines into a family of artists. He started his career in advertising as an art director, then became a director of television commercials before starting to paint professionally. Cruz participated in several group and solo exhibitions before emigrating with his family to Canada in 2005. Cobie Cruz's paintings are an exploration of composition, color and texture. The bold and determined brushstrokes are created by both intention and spontaneity and reflect his interpretation of the world around him. Cruz is curently represented by Canvas Gallery, Petroff Gallery, Arta Gallery in Toronto and Galerie Bloom in Montreal. Learn more about Cobie Cruz . I want to share a new exciting art podcast that will be premiering next week, called In/Tension. In/Tension, produced by Toronto-based The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, is a limited podcast series of intimate, thought-provoking and accessible conversations with emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary visual artists across Canada. Detailing the ideas, inspirations and experiences that fuel their art, In/Tension aims to shed light on the breadth of the Canadian contemporary art scene and provide a platform for diverse artistic voices to dive deep into their creative intentions. Learn more Learn more about the podcast .
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SE03 EP22 - Interview with Carol Loeb
10/12/2023
SE03 EP22 - Interview with Carol Loeb
Carol Loeb is a Canadian acrylic and mixed media artist who has always been fascinated with nature and our relationship to it. Carol’s main subject is the landscape, both rural and urban. She works mainly in acrylics, usually blocking in dark and mid-tone areas first then adding thin layers of saturated color to create luminosity and depth. The result is a realism that goes beyond a photographic representation or record of place. In the lead-up to Canada’s 150th anniversary, she conceived and executed the Trans-Canada 150 art project, a cross-continental documentation of the Canadian landscape along the Trans-Canada Highway from coast to coast, culminating in a series of 52 studio paintings and a book. More recently, as travel had been restricted by the global pandemic, she has concentrated on industrial and urban landscapes. Learn more about the artist . Learn more about the podcast .
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S03 EP21 - Interview with Ramona Nordal
09/28/2023
S03 EP21 - Interview with Ramona Nordal
Canadian-born artist Ramona Nordal began her art exploration at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here she studied lithography, colour theory, painting and drawing and later focused on anatomy drawing and painting. Colour theory has always been a huge part of Nordal’s process and she is quickly becoming known for her richly evocative colour palette. The central theme that unites all of her work is the mixture of the traditional with the unconventional. Her work is a representation of her interest in the human form, pop art culture and capturing the presence of her subjects. Nordal is hyper aware of art's relationship with human emotion and her subjects reflect this as they captivate you and entice you into their world. Her work can be found in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Australia, Honk Kong and Europe. Learn more about the artist . Learn more about the podcast .
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SE01 EP20 - Interview with Britni Mara
09/21/2023
SE01 EP20 - Interview with Britni Mara
Chicago-based visual artist Britni Mara is innately drawn to paint as a medium and has a sensory attachment to the physical push and pull of pigment. Intuition and years of experience guides her work as she seeks a meditative state to curate chaos towards intentional happenstance. She strives to bring a sense of structure to coincidence. Mara finds freedom in gestural energy and peace in the color field interplay which is rooted in post-war abstract expressionist movements. Her original artworks have been sold and shown all over the world. Britni is also deeply passionate about creating platforms for emerging artists to thrive. In 2020, Mara founded the hallway gallery, which is an alternative pop-up style gallery dedicated to showing female and non-binary artists in the Chicago area. The goal is to turn the empty walls of hallways into opportunities and provide support to first-time and upcoming artists.
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S03 EP19 - Interview with Claire Desjardins
09/14/2023
S03 EP19 - Interview with Claire Desjardins
Claire Desjardins is an award-winning abstract painter based in Gore, Quebec and Sarasota, Florida. Claire’s paintings, though abstract, take their visual cues from forms, colors, textures and patterns in nature: the feathers of a bird, the shades of turquoise in the water, how the light through the trees dapples on the ground below. Beyond the canvas, Claire’s art transforms commercial and residential interiors, urban exteriors, housewares, furniture, package design and women’s apparel. Her work has appeared in major motion pictures and popular television shows. Claire’s long-standing corporate collaborations shape and define the customer experience – most notably for retail North American retail giant Anthropologie. Learn more about the artist Learn more about the podcast .
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S03 EP18 - Interview with Toni Hamel
08/31/2023
S03 EP18 - Interview with Toni Hamel
Toni Hamel describes her work as “an illustrated commentary on human frailties“. Rooted in story-telling, her art practice draws from personal experiences and outward observations to create thematic bodies of work that reflect on and interpret the psychological unease of this anthropocentric age. Virtues and vices, the holy and the profane, the good and the bad all share equal weight in her work and supply an infinite source of material for her investigations. Pointing to historical references, popular culture and our current conceptual standing, Hamel’s satirical narratives ultimately seem to question our behaviour while alerting us about the repercussions of our current thinking models. Learn more about the artist Learn more about the podcast .
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SE03 EP 17 - Interview with Alex Garant
08/24/2023
SE03 EP 17 - Interview with Alex Garant
Internationally renown as the Queen of Double Eyes, Alex Garant studied visual arts at Notre-Dame–De-Foy College just outside Quebec City. After graduating in 2001, she ultimately settled in Toronto, Canada. She decided to truly commit to her passion for Arts after suffering from a heart attack in 2012, changing forever how she would see the world. As a pioneer of Contemporary Figurative Op Art, her oil paintings offer a graphic quality combined with traditional portrait techniques. Garant establishes herself as one of the leaders of analogue Glitch Art by using patterns, duplication of elements, symmetry and image superposition as key elements of her imagery. Her paintings are a reflection on human duality, the battle for self-definition between one's inner self and outer persona. Learn more about the artist . Learn more about the podcast .
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SE03 EP16 - Interview with Félix Bélanger | Divina Dalí Exhibit
07/11/2023
SE03 EP16 - Interview with Félix Bélanger | Divina Dalí Exhibit
Félix Bélanger is a long-time contributor in the world of art and culture in Canada. His encounter with the work of Savlador Dalí was a turning point that changed his life, eventually leading to a close relationship with the world-renowned scholar and archivist for Dalí, Frank Hunter. His friendship and collaboration with Frank Hunter broadened his vision of the great master of surrealism and led to the success, development and creative vision for Divina Dalí. . .
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SE03 EP15 – Interview with Colin Morris
06/07/2023
SE03 EP15 – Interview with Colin Morris
I had the pleasure of chatting with Colin Morris from and discussing his passion for helping artists thrive. Morris studied finance, but when he was in his early 20s, he never imagined taking over his father’s business. Now, helping Kingston artists and improving FrameWorks’ online store has become his “central focus.” We discussed topics like limited edition prints, framing, and marketing art products and services on social media to connect with buyers from all over the globe. We also discussed a new show Colin is launching - called Prolific. I am excited to be Colllin’s first guest on June 15th and we hope you can join us live, sign up and get a link .
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SE03 EP 14 - Interview with Breann Ritchie
04/25/2023
SE03 EP 14 - Interview with Breann Ritchie
Breann Ritchie had a keen interest in the arts from an early age. She actively pursued her passion for creating and in 2011, graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and a Diploma in Visual Arts from Sheridan Institute. Breann has actively sought creative spaces to connect with other artists, art collectors and gallerists. She was involved with a number of prominent galleries in Hamilton and the surrounding communities. She worked extensively with the Hamilton and Mississauga arts communities by acting as a jury member for public art installations, local exhibitions and arts award ceremonies. She was Chair of the Hamilton Arts Council’s Visual Arts Committee for several years raising awareness for artists exhibiting locally by creating a series of artist talks and providing informational support for businesses exhibiting original art. Breann worked for several years with the prestigious artist agency, Progressive Fine Art, liaising with art galleries in Canada and the United States to further market and celebrate the work of their artists. From there, she moved into a Registrar and Art Consultant position with Crescent Hill Gallery in Mississauga. Breann now works as the Gallery Director at Crescent Hill where she has had the opportunity to work with brilliant local and international collectors and some of the most influential artists in Canada. She continues to maintain her own art practice and exhibits locally in between spending time with her two young boys.
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S03 EP13 - Interview with Nicole Allen
04/18/2023
S03 EP13 - Interview with Nicole Allen
Canadian artist Nicole Allen is motivated by colour and the chaotic beauty of the organic. Born in Oakville, Ontario, Nicole developed an early appreciation for painting the Canadian landscape from her father. Over the years, Nicole has consistently developed her painting and figurative skills through her studies at the Ottawa School of Art and local artists' groups. In 2010, Nicole began exhibiting her work in the Ottawa region and now paints full-time at her studio as a member of The Loft Artists collective. Her paintings are held in private collections in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
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SE3 EP12 - Interview with Alex Hunt
03/14/2023
SE3 EP12 - Interview with Alex Hunt
Alex Hunt is a Canadian abstract artist with a flair for bold, well-constructed colour palettes and elaborate compositions. Alex’s love for colour and working with acrylics as her chosen medium stems from her longstanding background as a magazine Fashion Editor. This has enriched her talent and technique evident in her colour combinations, exquisite layering and spontaneous brush strokes. Her artwork evokes joy reflective of her positive and playful personality. Intuition and raw emotion make up the layers and texture in her artworks creating a visual delight for her clients to love and adore in their homes.
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SE3 EP11 - Interview with Alexandrya Eaton
01/18/2023
SE3 EP11 - Interview with Alexandrya Eaton
is a contemporary Canadian painter. In the past decade her practice has grown to include rug-hooking and weaving, incorporating the same vibrant palette and feminine icons across all mediums. Alexandrya Eaton’s work is an emotional tribute to the self, working mothers, and women everywhere who have experienced the loss of significant figures. Eaton’s superpower has always been her radical expressions of love as she navigates the world with an open heart and confidently proves there is strength in vulnerability. Learn more about the .
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SE3 EP10 - Interview with Adele Webster
01/11/2023
SE3 EP10 - Interview with Adele Webster
Early in life, found the escape creativity provided, the peaceful place your brain wanders while creating. Everything she paints begins in nature; the way water moves, the way clouds form. Natural landscapes, seascapes and horizon lines are a constant theme throughout her creations. She works on birch panels with acrylic and high gloss resin, allowing the wood to peek through and add a natural, textural element to her work. Adele paints to find peace and joy and hopes that it's reflected back to everyone that sees it. Learn more about the .
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SE3 EP9 - Interview with Karen Jeffrey
01/04/2023
SE3 EP9 - Interview with Karen Jeffrey
is an abstract artist working in acrylic, and cold wax, and oil. Karen's body of work is largely reflective of her many travels and she draws her inspirations from her surroundings and the ongoing dialogue in her mind. Each painting represents a collection of fragments from her memories of travels, and they come together to form a larger visual story. Giving the piece lively energy and captures an environment, where the forms, lines, and marks coexist.
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SE3 EP8 - Interview with Steve Perry
12/27/2022
SE3 EP8 - Interview with Steve Perry
paintings range from intimate to mythic. There is a story going on in Stephen Perry's work... but you're never quite sure what it is. There are recurring themes: animals, nature, humanity, technology… and the places and moments where they intersect. The creative approach has a unique contemporary feel - a "stylized realism" - with smooth gradations, subtle blends and a distinct use of light and shade. Stephen Perry’s background includes photography, graphic design, film making and 3D animation.
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SE03 EP07 - Interview with Gail Blima
12/20/2022
SE03 EP07 - Interview with Gail Blima
is a creative innovator who has explored photography, representational art and mixed media. She uses the power of language to make a statement and draw out emotion. “By layering vibrant acrylic accents over a collage base and incorporating the written word, I connect the audience to cultural references that are ironic, humorous or directed from pop culture. The first thing people notice about my art is the clear-cut message. I want to convey a feeling of empowerment, optimism, and positivity through my paintings.” Learn more about the .
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SE3 EP6 - Interview with Keren Toledano
12/13/2022
SE3 EP6 - Interview with Keren Toledano
Keren Toledano is a self-taught artist based in New York City specializing in art to furnish existing spaces. She worked as literary agent, editor and writer and after publishing several short stories in literary journals, writer’s block led her to explore fine art. Her current work revolves around the act of telling stories in the absence of a formal language. She now splits her time between painting and writing, finding connections across disciplines. In addition to collaborations with interior designers and art publishers, her work has been featured at international fairs and in various magazines. . .
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S2 EP05 - Interview with Crystal Beshara
12/06/2022
S2 EP05 - Interview with Crystal Beshara
Crystal Beshara has been drawing and painting since childhood inspired by her rural upbringing in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Crystal moves easily between watercolour, oil and dry media. Her work is recognizable with it’s rich, earth toned palette and emotionally charged, rural narrative. She spent years as a child observing and quietly illustrating the life around her which has informed the accuracy of her anatomy in both her flora and fauna subject matter as well as her ability to capture expression and emotion in her portraits. . .
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SE 2 EP4 - Interview with Kristy Gordon
11/29/2022
SE 2 EP4 - Interview with Kristy Gordon
Kristy Gordon is a Canadian-born artist living in New York City. "My visual narratives counter-historical representations of the figure in painting, namely white bodies performing conventional gender roles. Instead, I populate my work with people from diverse backgrounds. I also insert feminine or camp motifs—flowers, unicorns, and fairies, for example—into traditionally masculine genres. The presence of monsters and mythic beings further suggests that these are spaces where identity is fluid." .
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SE03 EP3 - Interview with Marina Nazarova
11/22/2022
SE03 EP3 - Interview with Marina Nazarova
Marina Nazarova is a Russian-Canadian painter and illustrator. Her work mainly focuses on people and spaces as she endeavours to investigate themes of subjectivity, duality and shifting perceptions. .
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SE3 EP2 - Interview with Mimmo Baronello
11/15/2022
SE3 EP2 - Interview with Mimmo Baronello
Sicilian-born and raised and currently Toronto-based artist Mimmo Baronello paints the tensions he observes as a new Canadian, pristine nature contaminated by consumer culture and the slow erosion of the natural landscape by human industry. His paintings blend the mannerist and baroque style present in Sicilian culture and architecture, with contemporary imagery from Canadian natural richness. . .
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