I curate visual arts under The Art Junkie banner and I write from time to time on Colder by The Lake. I am an accredited facilitator for Amherst Writers & Artists, which runs not-for-profit writing workshops.
These are Frida Kahlo’s works. She is one of the five famous artists featured in this video on journals and sketchbooks. (NOTE: This is a 25-minute video, but so worth watching, by UK artist Lillian Gray. You can also skip through some of the sections if you don’t […]
Apparently no one knew it was a Banksy when contractors moved in to begin demolition for dozens of new homes. The mural, Morning is Broken, showed a young boy, with a cat at his side, opening corrugated iron curtains at the site in Kent, England. The house, built in […]
I could not resist doing an update on a food artist I have followed since she first took hold of our imaginations. Her colorful geometric style made all hell bake loose on the frontier of contemporary pie art, and her iconic signature spoke design has been dubbed the […]
The Museum of Vancouver presents Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter, featuring 43 full costumes, 5 corsets, 31 pairs of shoes, 28 hats, 10 handbags, 8 fans, and undergarments too numerous to count. The exhibition makes the case that fashion, and costumes are significant and enduring expressions of […]
This powerful environmental art is from Kyle Scheurmann, who documents the incremental approach of climate change in his narrative paintings, while simultaneously working on conservation and activism efforts in Canada. (Above: Fireweed, 48 x 72,” oil and birch ashes on linen) His stunning, contemporary oil works paint stories […]
Shary Boyle’s major exhibition of new work (on now at Vancouver Art Gallery) expresses the Candian visual artist and performer’s ever-mounting anxieties about climate change and social crisis worldwide. The work was inspired by the lyrics in a 2016 song by UK poet Kate Tempest (see video and […]
Canadian Art Junkie 