Stewart Jones
While perusing Canadian Art Junkie I lucked out by finding out about Stewart Jones. Now, here’s a painter after my own heart – Jones is a Toronto-based artist whose paintings of cityscapes focus on the interplay of manufactured and natural…
Canadian War Artists of WWI
Today is Remembrance Day. On this, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at 11 o’clock an armistice was signed that ended Word War I. While today Remembrance Day is observed as a means to honour the sacrifice of members…
Nude Painting of Canada’s PM has Some Folks in a Tizzy: update
Back in May I mentioned that there was a kerfuffle over a nude painting of Canada’s Prime Minister being removed from public view, with the artist, Margaret Sutherland, crying censorship. As I mentioned in that earlier post: There’s been some…
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer whose work documents the impact of industry on the environment. Most of his work is quite large, high resolution prints taken with a large-format camera that capture bleak but visually rich vistas of industrial…
Jason Cantoro
Every now and then I see an image on Pinterest that piques my curiosity and voilà, I discover a new artist. Such was the case with Jason Cantoro. I’m a visual artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. … I…