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Located in Liverpool, Hell Bay Brewing Company can be found on the waterfront in a brightly coloured orange building. When I arrived to conduct my interview, Melanie Perron beckoned me into the back area. She and business partner, Mark Baillie were hard at work in their Creating Space where much of the magic happens! Where …
Spring is on the horizon and beginning to challenge winter. Warmer temps, snow drops popping and the glorious lengthening of the days! The best part of declining winter? Longer days!!!!! The energy is building. More light and increasing warmth from the sun. I have been obsessing on all these things the last few weeks. They have …
Born in 1964, Hungarian- Canadian Xaver Varnus studied in Budapest, where his first piano teacher was Emma Németh, one of the last pupils of Claude Debussy. He was also a student of Melinda Kistétényi. He left Hungary in 1981 to go to Paris to study with Pierre Cochereau organist of the great Notre-Dame Cathedral. Today, …
Happy Saturday and thanks for visiting Creating Space. Since this is my first article of the new year, (even though we are almost to February), I will start by sharing my Resolutions for 2021. Took me a while to decide what I wanted to commit to but here we go….. Walk a minimum of 5 …
Elizabeth Brown (Liz) is a woodcarver who started carving in 1993 and hasn’t stopped. Her “guard dog”, Bowie, enthusiastically greeted me when I arrived at her Creating Space at Corner Store Studio, in Liverpool. Liz was carving and laughingly assured me he was not a killer. Join me for a visit with Elizabeth Brown, woodcarver. The …
Zara Matrix is a performance artist who expresses herself in the art form of Drag! If I was meeting with Zara Matrix in her Creating Space, or at her mom’s home near Liverpool, perhaps she would have painted me up in a fabulous drag look. We would have done a photo shoot and I would …
Melanie Perron is a fibre artist, an entrepreneur, co-owner and founding partner of Hell Bay Brewing Company, and a culinary artist. Her art is wearable and in some cases also walk-on-able. I was pleased to be invited to her Creating Space on the Brooklyn Shore Road in Queens County. Her studio is a rainbow of …
Vernon Oickle is an award-winning journalist and editor. He is also the author of several books. When we chatted at his home in Liverpool, I asked him about the 27 books he has written. Imagine my blush when he gently corrected me. He had written 33 books, not 27. He smiled as I apologized, and …
For 44 years Ivan Higgins has been the owner-operator and landscape designer of Cosby’s Garden Centre on Highway 3 in Liverpool. His experience, knowledge of plants and creativity has transformed landscapes, into works of art, in Queens County and beyond. Ivan is also a sculpture who works in an unusual medium, concrete. I found Ivan …
How did Debbie Doodles get her name? She tells me one of two art students, either Kiefer or Keegan, started it. With a twinkle in her eye, she gives the credit to both and loves the nickname. It’s been Debbie Doodles ever since. (Except her grandson. He calls her Nanny Noodles. ) You may know …