. . . Livea three-dimensioned life;stay away from screens.Stay away from anythingthat obscures the place it is in.– “How to Be a Poet,” Wendell Berry I woke early, and in the blue dawn my mind began to trace the contours of this editorial – my take as an educator, parent and interdisciplinary artist on the…
When I wrote about Calvin and Inès Seerveld’s remarkable bequest of art collected over three generations of their family to Trinity Christian College last August, I did not imagine that a year later I would be writing its sequel, or that the sequel would be a kind of elegy. Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights,…
When my youngest was very small, he always carried a kaleidoscope to church. Technically, it wasn’t a kaleidoscope but a teleidoscope for toddlers: a solid wooden toy he could keep in his pocket. We went to a large church with columns, candles and stained glass windows, and every Sunday, he’d inspect the sanctuary through his…
“And by this time either they had grown much smaller or the picture had grown bigger. Eustace jumped to pull it off the wall and found himself standing on the frame; in front of him was not glass but real sea, and wind and waves rushing up to the frame as they might to a…
Jonathan Anderson is the Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts at Regent College in Vancouver. Anderson is trained as an artist, art critic and theologian. In his recent book, The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art (2025), Anderson addresses a strange phenomenon: even though religion was present in modern art,…
Have you ever seen a charcoal painting? Ken van Rees has captured the marks of Saskatchewan burn sites on canvas. The paintings are on exhibit at the Shurniak Gallery in Assiniboia, south of the forest that inspired the series. These canvases have been the work of the last fifteen years. In 2010, van Rees was…
Last fall, Alicia Looyenga raised $1,050 for the 541 Eatery & Exchange in Hamilton, Ontario, by selling “Little Tiny Paintings.” Five-forty-one is a non-profit, pay-it-forward café with a shared space for paying and non-paying customers. Customers can buy a “button” with their meal that others can then use to pay for their coffee or food….
I’ve slowly been stocking the fridge with homemade inks. A forestry friend tells me that the berries I picked off a hedge are privet berries – they make a stunning purple. Another friend brings me dogwood fruit from her boyfriend’s yard: we eat a few – they have almost a gritty texture – and then…
Clear skies greeted the Antigua, a sailing vessel carrying artists into the Arctic Circle. “We were in the right spot for all of these belugas that kept coming around the corner of this little coastline,” Phil Irish describes. Two artists hooked up their underwater sound equipment to speakers. “Belugas are like songbirds,” says Irish. “They’re…
Some time ago, Nandy Heule, now based in Ottawa, Ontario, purchased the painting ‘Cowboy Landscape,’ from Timothy deVries, a painter in Hamilton whom she had met at First Christian Reformed Church in Toronto. After reconnecting by email in July 2024, Timothy invited Nandy to participate in an art collector interview. Following a number of questions…
Toronto-based artist and illustrator Maia Hoekstra takes her sketchbook everywhere. For Hoekstra and, she suspects, for many neurodivergent creatives, making things is necessary: “It’s a survival tactic to pursue creativity,” she said. “I can’t not make. It is something inside me that has to come out. If I don’t make art, I feel miserable. I…
“You know, she doesn’t glue any of it down,” the museum worker says. I’m peering at an intricate piece of LEGO art by Katherine Duclos. Her exhibition, The Light & Colour We Carry, is taking place in the Art Rental & Sales showroom room of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The museum worker spins on his…
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