Art has come later in life to this professional educator who was born and raised in Montreal, QC. This self-taught contemporary artist prefers larger canvases and his palette knife to create his abstract pieces. Steve still talks about the splashes of colour on canvas that encouraged him to take his first class and develop his own expanding style. Local Ontario artists like Charles Robb and Peter Triantos have guided the flow of his work. He prefers to allow viewers to bathe

Chandler Levack is an award-winning writer, journalist and filmmaker. In 2017, her short film We Forgot to Break Up premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and SXSW. She is currently working on her first feature, I Like Movies. Headshot by Cotey Pope. Interview by Rebeccah Love Were you a creative kid? What kinds of art did you make in your childhood? I was a very creative kid, almost to a fault. I was addicted to books and loved immersing myself in fictional wor

Leah Cameron is Toronto-based writer and director who loves writing comedies that help us empathize and laugh with characters who share our own human foibles. Having grown up with a lefty Dad who was continually launching David-and-Goliath-like election campaigns in the conservative neighbourhood he called home, she is drawn to Don Quixote-like characters -- average people with outsized dreams. The Communist's Daughter, a comedic 8 x 12 minute semi-autobiographical series whi

Jason Couse is a music producer, songwriter and composer for film & TV. As one-half of Toronto art-pop duo, The Darcys, he has performed internationally and received Polaris Prize & Juno Award nominations. Jason is a two-time Banff Centre music resident, SOCAN songwriting camp participant, and is alumni of the Slaight Family Music lab at the Canadian Film Centre. Interview by Rebeccah Love How would you describe your childhood? In what kinds of creative activities were you en