Type, Episode 3: Leanne Davies and Linda Zeman-Spaleny

Leanne Davies and Linda Zeman-Spaleny interview each other about the inspiration behind their art in our latest episode of Type.

Type is an Open Book series of "co-interviews" in which authors are paired with creative people in other fields of art and culture such as fashion, art, culinary arts, music, film/TV, theatre, dance and more.

In each segment, our guests open up a discussion by asking each other about their respective work and inspirations. Full of natural curiosity and without any pre-set questions or previous encounters, this series is filled with the type of spontaneous, engaging conversation that can happen at really good dinner parties, cocktail parties and other chatty gatherings...and then stick in your head for days.

In 1993, Leanne Davies moved from Victoria to Toronto in a duct-taped ‘74 Malibu towing a 17-foot trailer full of crap. In 1996, she graduated with a BFA from York University. After working in new media and playing drums for various obscure bands she began painting again. Her studio is located at the Artscape Wychwood Barns and you can view her amazing work here.

Linda Zeman-Spaleny is the author of Lord of the Sky, a children’s picture book published in April 2009 by Toronto-based Tundra Books. The book is beautifully illustrated by Linda’s mother Ludmila Zeman – an award-winning illustrator, writer and filmmaker. Linda has worked as an intellectual property lawyer, a freelance photographer, and assisted in the writing of her mother’s books. She also co-wrote a feature film script based on her mother’s Gilgamesh trilogy and later made a short documentary about the pre-production of the film. Presently she is working on a documentary about her grandfather, Karel Zeman, and a new picture book based on her grandfather’s famous film Baron Munchhausen. Linda was also recently interviewed in Open Book's Ten Questions series.

Type is presented on Novel-tv, a new web channel offered exclusively by Open Book and produced by Spontaneously Combusted Films.