“I could not, not see the image of a table set with tea in the midst of rubble. It had been in my mind for years,” explains Karen Tamminga-Paton, the Alberta artist whose art installation, Peacetalks, recently exhibited at Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre in British Columbia. Tamminga-Paton was beginning an artist’s residency in France with…
Matthijs Cupido was born in 1939 in Dordrecht, a city in South Holland, into a family of ten boys and one girl. After four of their children immigrated to Canada in the early 1950s, the parents followed in 1955 with the rest of the family, including Matth. Matth showed an unusual interest in art from…
On March 31, one of the most unusual auctions in the world went live for the third time. “Icons Save Lives” is a collection of Ukrainian Orthodox icons painted by 34 contemporary artists who used empty ammunition boxes and bullet casings from the ongoing war against Russia as their canvases. Proceeds from the auction will…
From mid-October to early December 2023, I painted “Ghosts of Lemon Groves Past.” Inspired by a film called The Lemon Tree (2008), I explored the nature of a people’s love for a land. The lemons in the painting are not yet ripe, but carefully tended to by a farmer. Formerly part of a Palestinian village,…
One of the best things about Christian Courier (in my biased view) is that you’ll come across Canadian artists you’ve never heard of before. Chances are you first heard of poet Andrew Lafleche and photographer Karene-Isabelle Jean-Baptiste right here, with us. We don’t want your engagement with these brilliant creators to end there. That’s why, at the end of the year,…
Canadian artist Josh Tiessen’s series Streams in the Wasteland, from which these two images are taken, explores the themes of wild animals inhabiting abandoned spaces. The title for the series, painted from 2015 to 2021 and first shown at Jonathan Levine Projects in Jersey City, NJ, is taken from Isaiah 43:20-22: “The wild animals honour…
I have spent years visiting art galleries and, for a portion of my career, I even had the opportunity to work in one. I am that person who stands and reads each label, curious to understand what the artist wants to express through their work. Because of this interest, one of my next steps in…
Despite North American culture’s “throw-away” reputation, if you are of Dutch background you may be familiar with the concept of making do when something breaks. At my house, we regularly use bent forks, holey oven mitts and a repaired teapot. The idea of using something broken-but-functional is not new to me. A recent event made…
“I paint people at work,” says Karen Bailey. That’s how she came to be rolling sandwiches in a church kitchen in Ottawa one day, alongside the 70- and 80-year-old women whose portraits she was painting. That’s also how, the next day, she was flying to Afghanistan, entering the Kandahar Air Field in a sandstorm to…
This photo is a favorite of mine. It is a selfie of sorts, taken with my dad in 2018 at the Waterloo Clay and Glass Museum, down the road from where my parents live. The exhibit was a 30-year retrospective of the work of Susan Low-Beer, a Toronto-based sculptor and artist who has exhibited widely…
Given spray paint, a broken wall and 15 minutes, what would you say to the Taliban? Ukraine erased Afghanistan from our news. Many people are entering 2023 weary of news of war and worried over inflation. Our lack of attention doesn’t mean that atrocities stop. Ukrainian, Afghan, Yezidi, Rohingya and Nigerian individuals are still living…
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous by Hans Luitjen just came out in English on November 3, 2022. Jo van Gogh was a sister-in-law to Vincent, married to his brother, Theo. After both brothers died she single-handedly made Vincent a household name and redefined the world’s definition of an artist at the…
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