‘Creating art has changed my life,’ talented Canadian artist Barbara Cole told us in 2019. It ‘has allowed me to open up in ways I didn’t know possible.’ From April 15th to 29th at the Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto – and online for all to see – Cole is showing new

‘I have had so many hardships, with people saying various things about me.’ So said world-renowned artist Yayoi Kusama in a 1965 interview with Japanese poet Akira Tatehata. ‘Time is finally turning a kind eye on me. But it barely matters, for I am dashing into the future.’ In 2021,

Camille Saint-Saëns – child prodigy, polymath, and prolific composer, born 1835 in Paris – wrote: ‘The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colours, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.’ This composer of such beloved pieces as

i. My name is: Chrissy Cheung ii. I am a: Curator and a contemporary artist. For this interview-essay I am speaking only as a curator for PAINTER8. (That’s a condensed name for the Painter8 Arts Society) iii. Who will participate in this show?   The Canadian visual artists exhibiting in