Demian’s Blog

Have been thinking quite a bit about painting and art in general these last few weeks.  Also toying with a 5 year plan that involves getting back into painting.  Part of the exercise lead me to put some of my old work online, you can see it here at Artflock.
Also got my mum started on [...]

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Went to my dad’s place yesterday, Farah cooked another wonderful meal, some kind of roast pork, slow cooked and with apricot and apple sauce … mmmmmmm.
My dad enjoyed Aldona’s reading suggestions from the last visit, in particular Amos Os,  and sent me home with Selected Poems of Yehuda Amichai for her.
Conversation was rich [...]

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I went to school with Natasha, we met in the painting studios in the visual arts building of Concordia (Montreal). When she’s not busy cranking out paintings and preparing for upcoming international exhibitions, she’s rehearsing for her role as first violinist for I Musici, an internationally acclaimed chamber music orchestra started by her father, [...]

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