Creatively Thinking With Carolyn B
Join Carolyn B as she goes beneath the surface with local Creative Professionals on their practice, inspiration, and perspectives. Carolyn pulls you underneath the fabric of their creativity, where we discover how their genius of communicating in the Arts transforms, and translates into spectacular reality. What does their medium say about them?
What do they think of originality? Authenticity? In what moment of their creativity does their true passion sit? Is it in the imagination stage? Conceptualization? Or the Gallery or Stage? What are their feelings on Abstraction? Realism? Where are they seeing their career taking them in the next ten years? Do they have any political or social agendas with their Art?
Currently we are working on the Second Season where we go further into how Creative Professionals are incorporating their practice into mainstream society. How is their understanding of and practice pushing boundaries and developing their skills? How does the business side of being an Artist change being an Artist? Second season has been launched, take a peak!
If you know of anyone who would like to have an interview on their creative practice send me an email at: creativelythinking.blog@gmail.com. This is the best compliment you can give us, and keeps the creative discussion moving and growing. Changing and influencing others to share and propel inspiration forward.
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn B
Carolyn Scanlan Episode #16: OCAD Reflections
This was going to be one of the most exciting times in my life. I had decided this before I even stepped inside the building. I was about to embark on my post-secondary education at a school where the Group of Seven had gone. Those god-like Painters of our glorious nation known as Canada. This is my essay to you, declaring my profound experience of being an Abstract painter and how it led me to become an Artist interviewer. To want to go behind the scenes, undercover, into the inner circle of the imagination.
What really touched me the most about this time in my life, was how much Art really spoke to me; I could feel the tangible living passion these Artists had poured into their artwork. I was volunteering at the Art Gallery of Ontario on the weekends, and being consumed with Artwork all the time was really exhilarating. There truly was an igniting energy that I could feel. It was in the faculty, the students, the art on the walls, the lectures, everywhere.
One of the most influential aspects of Picasso’s work for me was his Cubist period. Seeing how he deconstructed forms and reassembled them from multiple perspectives taught me that art doesn't have to mirror reality—it can interpret and transform into unrecognizable shapes and perspectives. In essence, Picasso didn’t just influence how I create; he helped shape why I create. He showed me that art can be a means of personal evolution, emotional expression, and cultural conversation—all at once.