Episode #2 Gwen Tooth: Walk Them Around In My Head

Creatively Thinking With Carolyn Botelho

Speaking with Toronto based Expressionist Artist Gwen Tooth we take a deep dive into her practice on how she assimilates her travels into techniques in her toolbox; how staying with teachers too long can change your creativity in ways you didn't expect, and how she never thought art school was for her - when ultimately she went later on to three different institutions.
Join Carolyn Botelho as she discusses with Gwen where her influences in Art really came from, how textiles, printmaking, and even playing a variety of instruments played a part. When does she decide the painting is complete? How do memory and visualization work together? And what gave her the initial inspiration to take her down this artistic path?
Working backwards Tooth describes her early years with her mother and all that she learned from her, how sewing, and even copying calendar pictures, were part of the fabric that made her creativity what it has become today. Reflecting on all the tools she has gathered over the years from her Mother's hands, workshops, galleries, and classes, to fellow students, and friends.
Gwen's wealth of knowledge she unfolds for us methodically in this discussion on her practice, her process, and what few rules she sticks to as she breaks the rest; while she holds thousands of landscape snapshots in her psyche nearly ready to be revealed to the world in her next exhibition.
You can enjoy more of Gwen Tooth art here: https://propellerartgallery.com/members/gwen-tooth/
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Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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