Janna: Allie and I have known each other for a while. We were roommates at this place — I called the place"Hotel Beatrice." I had this great apartment close to 20 Bellwoods Park, and it had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, two floors and a little patio. It was so great because back in the day, I had the upper floor and a studio downstairs. There were always people there, always people drinking, always like a party. It was a lot of fun.
Allie: Before that, did you consider it? Obviously if you went to OCAD, you were considering it as a profession. Allie: Wow, I never knew that about you. I read that you consider your painting style automatic and I didn't know what that meant. Then I read a little further and I started to feel as if it was to do with intuition or being guided by some sort of force. Can you unpack that for me?
Allie: I relate to that somewhat on a musical level. When we lived together, I saw so many of your works up in the studio and you've always had a very distinct style. Did that style appear while you were at OCAD or before that? The reason it really fascinates me is because when we lived together I was nowhere near having found my sound. Finding my sound became the real challenge of becoming who I wanted to be as an artist. It took me so many years.
Janna: Bringing in the architecture has been important to me, because my paintings tend to be really organic and floating. Once you bring that structure in, it grounds things. It's not just this weird thing floating around, but there's structure to it. I actually think a lot of people, without knowing me, they've thought that I'm a man because that structure I bring into it is more of a masculine thing.
I made this piece, and it references Bauhaus. There's also a snake in it with an apple, which is referencing the Garden of Eden and where domesticity started. Bauhaus house was the first time that women were allowed to go to art school.Janna: Right, but they were only allowed to be in weaving and ceramics, which were considered domestic crafts. This show, I really want to bring things to the same level and especially through the pandemic.
Janna: Ten years ago I was at an art auction; it was a Canadian auction and my work was involved in it, but it was so blatantly clear — there was a Kim Dorland that went like five times overvalue, Steve Driscoll, and these are all by the way amazing painters, I really respect them. They all went astronomically over value, whereas like a Wanda Koop, a Shary Boyle, a Janna Watson and, of course, my ego was hurt a little bit.
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