by Art Ignotum | Sep 1, 2023 | Art on your walls, Artists
Sarah Palmer is a Canadian artist who has had more than 20 shows in western Ontario (London, Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo) but if you live in eastern Ontario it is unlikely that you know of her. Toronto separates western Ontario from eastern Ontario and the two...
by Art Ignotum | Sep 1, 2023 | Art on your walls, Artists
Germany in the 1920s was a troubled country: hyperinflation, homelessness, poverty, political extremism, racism, and a pandemic. While I am not making the claim that the situation in North America today is as bad as it was in Germany one-hundred years ago,...
by Art Ignotum | Dec 11, 2022 | Art on your walls
A version of this article appeared on pages 78-79 of the Spring 2023 issue of Grapevine magazine. I first started to pay attention to what people hung on their walls in Brooks, Alberta. I had moved to Brooks to begin my radio career as the morning man of a...
by Art Ignotum | Aug 5, 2022 | Artists
Let me start by saying you don’t look like I expected. Your paintings are challenging. Some might call them edgy. Even dark. You don’t look like someone who paints those kinds of paintings. I’m totally opposite from what you might expect if you only knew me from...