2021, Misty HeART project
2017, She smiles after all that... Not a bystander to anger, violence & bullying
Art is made for people to react. Having a position means what you are doing is needed and it is creating change. In the long term, a lot of people are going to appreciate it. - Venezuelan Woman,
Alberta Legislature Art Show & Tell, 2017.
2021, Violet King Henry plaza (dumpster canvas)
2019, Climate Strike, environment, social & political climate extremes
2020, Wear red as we go marching, Rome is burning
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2020-2021, George W. Bush & Jason Kenney
2021, Worship (dumpster canvas)
2021, Hineni ' I am here' (dumpster canvas)
1981, Ken Ku Kuo once told me that in China, people know life as a river. Going down a river you never know what lies around the next bend. Sometimes the water is like rapids, very bad time and hard at living. Sometimes it's calm, very happy to be alive, but always changing. Sometimes good times, sometimes bad times, but always changing.
Co-worker, friend Ken from Hanoi, Vietnam.
2019, Sideways, More Circles than Squares art project
2021, Life is a river (dumpster canvas)
2017, 2019, Troublemaker, the coming storm
2021, The laughing planet on the backside of George W. Bush & Jason Kenney
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When I first looked at it, it reminded me of Notre Dame Cathedral burning. It also reminds me also of some of Van Gogh’s paintings. If we are burning now, like Notre Dame, we will rise better and stronger." - Marg McCuaig-Boyd, 2020
2020-2021, Trees do talk
RESET (the box)
The painting of Mary Simon and the yellow flower
Art Show & Tell, Bio & Contact next page
Art is Freedom
2016, On guard for thee
2016, I am a man
Alberta Legislature, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, situated on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis people.
2016, 2017 City, Province bans outsider art...
"Freedom is important, especially today"-B.K.
"True North Strong and FREE, a line straight from our anthem"- E.K., "Escape is freedom from judgmental civilians who should mind their own business - and help those /encourage them who try to get a happy lifestyle..." -A.C.R.L.W.-B, "Freedom is Honesty, Being Honest is Love"-C, "Free The Art"-W.C., "Freedom is our right. In any form express it with art. If art was a crime Leonardo would have been doing the time"-E.B., "Sovereignty is Freedom"- Dene Warrior, "Edmonton Ward 7 candidate"-S.P., "Lets make Edmonton the City of Art and Imagination"-D, Art is Expression, Freedom is Art"-V, "Keep Fighting to Speak your Piece"-N.R., "Freedom is my right as a human being..." - C.A., "Freedom, Art and Honesty"-M.M., "If freedom is the child, then understanding is the mother and determination is the father"- R.K.A., "Art is a way to express ourselves as an artist, and its not something that others can simply take it away from us"- Kevan Lyons “Poet of Churchill Square”. "Art is Freedom"- Love A.L., "自由" S.L., "Fight the power, art is freedom" - K.C., "Art is freedom"- A.A., "Freedom, art and honesty"- M.M., "Freedom is a Right" - M.O.S., "Freedom for All Canadians"- G.W. Edmonton Ward 10 candidate, "The choice is ours", "To be who we want to be"-J.U., "Freedom seems almost unachievable", "Live your life how you want to, with love in your heart"-J, "We stand together"-V,
2016-2017, Art is freedom picket, sign
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July website guests visit from Longueuil, Edmonton, Vancouver, Delaware, France, Brisbane, Queensland, Shanghai, Las Vegas, Chicago, Thornhill, Zhengzhou, Ireland, Montreal, Calgary and Regina welcome!
2021, Mary Simon and the yellow flower
2015, The Poet & the Judge, We First Nations, Métis and Inuit
Doug Brinkman
Pain is my friend I tell myself FULL STORY
Painted from the backside of Herman Poulin's Service Through Christ statute, facing Lieutenant Governor Salma Lakhani's office.
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2013-9 Afghan boys gathering firewood
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Outsider Art Continued...
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