Pain is a great motivator. Nor is it a morbid thing. Pain, injury and deep discomfort are almost always catalytic turning points in our lives. Anouk Froidevaux knows this intimately. Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, she moved to Europe in 2002 to work as a...
Encountering Mary Donlan’s art happened through serendipity. I was checking out the bulletin board at an art supply store in Nanaimo, BC when her bright art business cards grabbed my eye. Mary is an artist who is greatly drawn to abstract art and to gardening....
Madeline McNeill has an approach to the body and performance that deeply inspires me. In a culture that still believes in divisions between body, mind and soul, she erases those distinctions with the conviction of her personal philosophy, that she IS body. Her...
Renata Loree shares her art journal pages in an online forum, and it was her slightly haunting portraits that drew me in. She’s got a thoughtful way of describing her website Artentive, and her practice. “Artentive was born out of an experience of living,...
A friend of a friend, I first met Rachel over 10 years ago, when I was living in, then visiting Montreal often. Her bubbly vivacious spirit and impeccable sense of style were the first things I noticed about her. It took longer to discover that she was a...
I love moments of connection and synchronicity. I also love fun online art challenges. So when Papirmass (a phenomenal visual arts/literary art subscription partnership) teamed up with Brown Paper Bag, a blog celebrating beautiful and clever illustration to run a...
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