“Give this to Jack and Alice.” Those words were scrawled on the back of an old family photo, Randy Hryhorczuk’s grandmother and her sisters in front of one of the family farms in rural Manitoba.
“My Baba was always encouraging of my creative work and always asked me how it was going . . . Alice Hryhorczuk passed away never having seen one of my paintings in person,” Hryhorczuk says.
“A rare sidestep out of my usual subject matter, I wanted to explore my family history through some of the old photos I had collected over the years. Hoping to impart some of the stories I know first hand, and others I’ve been told, to my son, an oil painting seemed like the perfect entry point for discussion.”
Hryhorczuk specializes in oil painting and linocut printmaking. He creates portraits, abstracts, still life (including pay phones and mall rides), and urban landscapes (featuring billboards and streets).
His website here.
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It’s wonderful.
Yes, with you on that. Love family photos so a painting based on one is, as you say, wonderful.
Definitely wonderful.