Art Sisters Podcast

Join Mona and Lindsay Dauphinee, a self-taught emerging artist currently building her dream home and studio in Belize, as they chat about Lindsay's re-entry into the art world. After weeks of exposure to inspiring art while spending time in the waiting room of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with her first son, Lindsay knew that her calling needed to be heard. She left the corporate world to fully embrace her creativity and started her healing process through art. Her practice focuses on colorful impressionistic landscapes and is inspired by nature scenes that evoke sentimental nostalgia, connection to Earth and one's adventurous inner child. She uses color theory associated with spirituality and the chakras to illustrate the incredible powers of nature and art.
www.mementomoria.design/collect
@mementomoria.design
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited

Join Valentine and Atlanta, Georgia based, Leslie Anne as they dig into the behind the scenes. Leslie shares about the benefits of staying open and seeking collaboration with other visual and performing artists, and trusting what feels good. Her intuition leading her into claiming her unique space as she creates her art world.

Leslie Anne is a self-taught contemporary artist based in Atlanta, Georgia by way of East St. Louis, Illinois. Leslie describe's her work as emotionally expressive, colorful, conceptual, and Afrofuturistic. Her art is inspired by prominent themes in her own life, like motherhood, race, relationships, gender, and personal expression. She uses bold contrasting elements to create interesting mixed media works; usually featuring bold colors, glitter, and visions of the sky like clouds and stars. By looking at the art, her hope is that you will find a sense of interconnectedness with all. And ultimately explore more of yourself.
Making art is like opening a portal and letting pure creation manifest. I am intentional about centering Black people and women in my pieces as a way to celebrate our culture and beauty with nuance. I want to show Black subjects as inherently valuable and worthy of being admired, which is often why my work incorporates crowns and gold elements. My art is as much about the process as it is the physical piece, as creating art opens the space for me to explore myself. I create self portraits as a way to honor my feelings and memorialize that specific time in my life. I'm inspired by the beauty and personal expression of Black people. My references are often individuals from my own life or intriguing images of Black subjects that inspire me in some way. My intention is to give the subject honor, express emotion, and showcase their humanity. In addition to painting, I create collage style digital artwork, incorporating photography, color, glitter, and lots of layers.
@myleslieanne
@bellavalentinaart

@artconnectwomen
@artconnectsociety

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Join Mona as she interviews Antoaneta Tica, a Romanian visual artist and art educator whose practice includes performances, wearable arts and textile works. Follow Antoaneta's journey as she describes many years of experience in fashion and costume design and how she began experimenting with unconventional materials during her college years.

Currently, she is deeply involved in sustainable art, which, in her opinion, is also conceptual. She believes that art must be beautiful, but it also has a message to be passed on to the viewer. Through sustainable art, artists not only express their thoughts or talents but also bring to light the problems of today's society by addressing concepts of major interest: environmental pollution, climate change, social issues and much more.

Antoaneta focuses on several art projects highlighting the danger we are currently facing, namely the increasingly acute pollution of the environment.
@antoanetatica
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited

Join Valentine and Camille as they dive openly into the behind the scenes of building a cohesive practice as a multipassionate artist.
Camille Myles is a French-Canadian multi-disciplinary contemporary artist and conservation activist exploring imagery that is grounded in our identity and reflects our impacts on the environment. Working in public art, painting, sculpture and installation, she creates art that tells a story linked to community connection, self-reflection and the restorative effects of nature. She received her BFA in Sculpture & Installation at Ottawa University and her MA in Heritage Conservation at Carleton University. Marrying her passion for conservation and art, she has worked as an archaeologist, in artist-run centres, the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, ICCROM in Rome, Canada’s National Trust and was a Park Superintendent at Parks Canada. Myles has exhibited extensively including Quest Art Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, BHA Gallery, Arts Mums United, Visionary Art Collective, Arts to Hearts Project, PxP Contemporary, Ottawa Art Gallery, Gallery 115, among others. In 2022, she was invited in 2022 to join the International Broken Forests Art Collective. She has been awarded an art residency in June 2022 at Studio H Canada in Victoria BC where she developed her new painting collection of “Crying Landscapes” - a plea for change as well as “I Stand Alone” an interactive drawing installation which has being exhibited at Quest Art Gallery in August-Sept 2022. Being drawn to the power of public art as a social community conversation, the artist has been creating murals and large-scale public art sculptures in Midland and in Penetanguishene. Her work has been featured by the Art Seen Magazine, Jealous Curator, Toronto Star, Create! Magazine, Visionary Art Collective, Arts to Hearts Project, Women United in Art Magazine and podcasts including Arts Mums United, Hot Mess to Awesomeness & CFRH. She’s won the Diamond Jubilee Medal and finalist of the Canadian RBC New Painting Competition. She’s a founding artist member of the Art Queens and The Works by Erika B Hess from I like your Work. Originally from Gatineau, Quebec, she now lives along the shores of Georgian Bay, in Tiny Ontario with her husband and three young children.
www.camillemylesart.com
www.artconnectsociety.com

In this episode, Mona had the pleasure of interviewing Sarah Clinton, a visual artist from Nashville, TN, who uses her art as a visual journal, capturing and processing the emotions of her daily life. When her second child was born with a rare genetic disorder and diagnosed with both autism and intellectual disabilities, Sarah stayed home to manage the complex needs of her family, which led her to fully embracing her creativity and diving into her art practice. Listen to her inspiring story as she describes her journey, gives valuable tips and advice and shares her love for ordinary objects and places that invoke deep connections we have with our environment.
www.sarahclintonart.com
@artmumseurope
@artmumsunited