Monday, 29 December 2025

Saturday, 27 December 2025

Drawing 2025: A chromatic approximation of the number π

A digital drawing of mine, Untitled (A chromatic approximation of the number π, the first 768 hexadecimal digits), has been on view the last few months at the online exhibition DRAWING 2025 of John B. Aird Gallery, which was juried and curated by Kathleen Vaughan.  Please feel free to check it, along with great drawings by other amazing artists, out before the show concludes.


Thursday, 25 December 2025

WEIHHNACHTEN (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)^2

TIME be on your side always.  Merry Christmas!  Frohe Weihnachten!


Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Christmas if only

Who else’s finding his way home for Christmas?

Chris Rea first released Driving Home For Christmas in 1986.  I was shocked to hear that he sadly passed away yesterday, merely three days before Christmas. R.I.P.


Video from TheOldrecordclub's youtube channel


Bing Crosby‘s I’ll Be Home For Christmas, 1943:


Video from Bing Crosby's youtube channel


Sunday, 21 December 2025

Dust Jacket

Shannon Garden-Smith from her solo exhibition Dust Jacket just closed yesterday at MKG127, Toronto:







Friday, 19 December 2025

Heavy Fog

I was totally blown away by Alice Gong Xiaowen's Heavy Fog, a subtle but intense sculptural sound installation currently at Franz Kaka, Toronto.  The swilling and ebbing frequencies are still resonating in my head space, like an overhanging heavy fog ...






Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Plumbraiser 6.06

The Plumb's annual Instagram auction Plumbraiser 6.0 continues on their Instagram platform with the last group, Group 6.  The auctioning will go until 20:00 EST tonight (01:00 GMT Thursday).  My favourites from this very strong group ...

Emmanuel Osahor's soft-ground etching, aquatint, sugar-lift and burnishing on Hahnemühle paper Portal (edition 6/7):



Laur P's watercolour and acrylic gesso on paper Erratum No. 1:



John Marriott's three grades of crushed uncoloured glass, black acrylic paint and matte acrylic medium on unprimed linen Distillates Prototype I:



FASTWÜRMS's stainless steel Pentangle Plumb:


Monday, 15 December 2025

Plumbraiser 6.05

The Plumb's annual Instagram auction Plumbraiser 6.0 continues on their Instagram platform with Group 5.  The auctioning will go until 20:00 EST tonight (01:00 GMT Tuesday).  A couple from this group ...

Margaux Smith's oil on panel Lamb's Ear:



Sukaina Kubba's 3D filament hand-painted with 3D pen Inner Song:


Saturday, 13 December 2025

Plumbraiser 6.04

The Plumb's annual Instagram auction Plumbraiser 6.0 continues on their Instagram platform with Group 4.  The auctioning will go until 20:00 EST tonight (01:00 GMT Sunday).  A couple from this group ...

Philip Leonard Ocampo's acryla gouache, graphite and images adhered to wood panel, with one strand of the artist's hair(!) Chronos' Sickle (True Love Ver.):



Enn Erisalu's oil on canvas backed by wood (four panels) Untitled:


Thursday, 11 December 2025

Plumbraiser 6.03

The Plumb's annual Instagram auction Plumbraiser 6.0 continues on their Instagram platform with Group 3.  The auctioning will go until 20:00 EST tonight (01:00 GMT Friday).  Some of my personal favourites from this favourite group of mine ...

Catherine Telford Keogh's waterjet cut aluminium corner guard Dead Ends:




Tristram Lansdowne's lithograph on kitakata paper Marrow (edition of 12):




Ella Gonzales's watercolour on paper Light Gather:




Kim Neudorf's oil on canvas Untitled:


Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Plumbraiser 6.02

The Plumb's annual Instagram auction Plumbraiser 6.0 continues on their Instagram platform with Group 2.  The auctioning will go until 20:00 EST tonight (01:00 GMT Wednesday).  Among others of this very strong group, here are some of my personal favourites ...

Larissa Tiggelers's acrylic on wood panel Fixing Messages:



Shannon Garden-Smith's archival digital print on 100% cotton, acid-free, hot press paper, and pigmented sand dust on acrylic Leaf, Recueil De Cartes (Dust):



Alize Zorlutuna's ebru and inkjet print on paper Old New Borrowed Blue:


Sunday, 7 December 2025

Plumbraiser 6.01

It's that time of the year again.  The 6th iteration of The Plumb's annual Instagram auction Plumbraiser 6.0 is now on.  Until December 17, there’s a group of artwork up for auction every two days to support the programming at the Plumb next year.  Group 1 is open for bidding on their Instagram platform until 20:00 EST tonight (01:00 GMT Monday).  Among others from this group are ...

Nadya Isabella's watercolour on paper Snow Angel:



And Ash Godley's oil on canvas Visit 1:



Friday, 5 December 2025

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Thought Pictures

Nabil Azab from their solo exhibition Thought Pictures currently at the Visual Arts Centre, Clarington: