What's your background in art? How did it get started?I am a self taught oil painter and have been painting for over 20 years. I started painting after I left my position as a production coordinator in the film/tv industry and had moved up north of Port Perry, Ontario. I have painted every day since. What inspires you? Who are your biggest inspirations?I find that there is an abundance of inspiration everywhere I look! Wherever I have lived, I found beauty and inspiration. You have to know how to look for it. I teach oil painting classes here in Port Stanley and I feel constantly inspired by the students in my classes. I also curate for the Art & Soul Cafe and the Windjammer Inn and the artists I meet while doing this are also inspiring. What is your creative process like?I am in the creative process 24/7! From the time I wake up and sit at the easel with a cup of tea, then out for a walk looking at the beauty surrounding me. I usually have 3-4 paintings on the go at a time in varying degrees of completion. I will be working on one, then have an inspiration and yank out another canvas and go at it! I really don't have a process, I just go with the flow. Do you ever experience creative blocks? How do you move past them?Never! If I feel even a little bit blocked I move my studio furniture around, everything has wheels on it for exactly this purpose.
If you could grab a drink with any artist in any medium living or dead, who would it be and why?I would love to sit down with Guy Goodwin or Robin Grindley, both known for their loose and joyful style of painting, and because they are interesting and make me laugh. I also enjoy Richard Clarendon and Peggi Kroll Roberts for their beautiful use of light and loose style of painting. What do you want people to experience through your work?A connection. Either by creating their own narrative to my figurative paintings or an emotional connection to a place or person to a painting I have created. Elizabeth Kusinski is a painter based out of Port Stanley Ontario. See her at the 2019 Railway City Arts Crawl or visit her website for more details.
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