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,…
The crow sits on the girl’s arm. It’s an old photograph, not quite in focus; the girl isn’t looking at the camera and neither is the crow. The photo was taken in 1887, and the girl is Emily Carr, aged 16. I’ve been working on a project about Emily Carr recently. My office wall is…
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….
Wildcat is the story of a fiercely devout artist who seeks to honour God through her art amid physical suffering and other challenges. Flannery O’Connor, who died in 1964 at age 39, is primarily known for short stories often classified as “Southern Gothic.” Some readers may hesitate to identify with her flawed characters, but they…
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…
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…
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