MARVELOUS REALISM CANADA - ' A Doll's House '

We are getting ready for our evolving show 'MARVELOUS REALISM CANADA' - The second presentation is opening at : CAFE NOSTALGICA - Jan.4, 601 Cumberland Street, Ottawa University Campus.

Joyeux Noel from the Byward Market

Christmas Eve in Sandy Hill

Friendly Birds at Elgin & Somerset

Bargain Dress

Christmas Downtown

George and his Christmas trees.

One week to go!  I  hope George (right) sells all his Christmas trees. If you want a beautiful, perfect tree drop by the parking lot at Shopper's Drug Mart on Rideau at Nelson.

NEW SHOWS - MARVELOUS REALISM CANADA

Combining the realism of PETER EVANCHUCK'S images with the marvelous art interpretation

of HELENE LACELLE the Abandoned Houses of Canada's Maritime Provinces present the first in an eventual Canada Wide series of shows and exhibitions.

These images select what the creators saw that would present the 'dramatic feel' of the creation; thus, the documentation of the abandonment becomes a dramatic exploration.

 This is a first presentation of an ongoing development of a style we call  
MARVELOUS REALISM CANADA
 
(Yes that's me, minus the wrinkles on my forehead - free Botox courtesy  of Photoshop)

MARVELOUS REALISM CANADA

Viewing at 3 locations:

Ottawa School of Art - 35 George St. - until Dec. 20

Life of Pie - ( Art in the LOO - not the LOUVRE! ) - 1134 Bank St. - on going
Timothy's Cafe - 234 Laurier East - until Jan 2016

SMURF made me SMILE today

Sitting in front of Metro today, Smurf sold me 'SMILE' for $5.00 - It wasn't until I got home that I saw what she had written behind her painting.

Amazing artwork from the 'kids&teens' Fall art program at OSA

Ottawa School of Art in the Byward Market

This is where I was born

Vernissage tonight at La Voix Visuelle on Beechwood St.

Helene standing by two of her selected prints for the 10th International Digital Art Miniprint Exhibition at Voix Visuelle

Maybe Pony Girl will come to our ONE&ONLY show

I Wish My Name Was Pony Girl

Another Indian Summer

Fall in Ottawa

Sandy Hill's ONE & ONLY arts/craft fair

Host/artists/producers Hélène Lacelle, Peter Evanchuck and Action Sandy Hill will celebrate

the 9th edition of the ONE&ONLY artisan-craft fair on Sunday, November 15 in the Sandy Hill Community Centre at 250 Somerset East. Come between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to meet about 50 vendors and hundreds of community members.

The ONE & ONLY is Sandy Hill’s premier fair, very popular and very tasty too thanks to Chef Evanchuck’s free buffet; this is the only fair in Ottawa that provides a huge free buffet open to all the community.

For the attending public, purchasing that “one & only” handmade, special gift for Christmas or personal occasions is a real treat. As Hélène Lacelle reminds us, “These items are all local, all handmade by the artists and artisans. This is a community display of local arts and crafts.” While the vendors are setting up their booths, Chef Evanchuck and his ASH volunteers are busy preparing to feed hundreds of people. “The free buffet really helps to bring in the students and local community and adds big-time to the success of the show. Over its nine years, we’ve fed a few thousand of them,"

Peter Evanchuck says. “There is nothing like a free buffet to help make any event a bigger success."

Unfortunately, this year Evanchuck has had to deal with four surgeries and 42 days of radiation to fight the return of his cancer. “I’m not sure how large the selection of food items will be this year,” he muses. “My October 7th surgery and ensuing radiation might weaken my ability to provide the usual variety in the ‘magnificent menu’ of past years.”

Lacelle and Evanchuck not only host the ONE & ONLY fair; they are also longtime resident artists of Sandy Hill, making movies, making books and making art. To see examples of their creative works, they invite you to visit the following websites:

movieshandmade.com, bookshandmade.com, goopmailart.com, neonmatisse.com

and sandyhillsoneandonly.blogspot.ca.

Today at the hospital

Indian Summer

Shallow Area

Aurevoir supermoon

Sterling's Backyard

HOMES ABANDONNED - on location in New Brunswick, Canada

confetti Dolls

confetti Toronto

Niagara Falls, Canada