The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Art Rental and Sales department will be showing their collection at Mobilia in Burlington. Here’s the link: AGH at Mobilia

They have two of my paintings, and I think it’s pretty cool to know that the AGH is doing such a good job of getting the art in their collection outside the gallery to be seen by a lot of other people who wouldn’t necessarily see it.

(For those of you on my mailing list, you’ve probably seen the two pieces already → Eve – pine lake clouds)

I will have some paintings in the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Art Sale which happens on April 30 – May 3 (more info here AGH Art Sale)

Here are some images of the new ones:

”’Not now’ said the maple”

“wandering giant”

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for coming out and being so supportive at Art in the Park last weekend. Despite the weather that was hot enough to melt most people who live in Ottawa, attendance was once again fantastic, and it turned out to be a great show. It was also a great debut for my new large paintings and I’m very thankful for the very positive response from everyone.

Here’s me at the end of it, pretty much mostly melted:

I’ll participating in Art on Ice again this year on February 10 here in Ottawa. Art on Ice is a great little event where we get to hang our paintings on the side of the Ridea Canal Skateway for a day and freeze our butts off. It was originally scheduled for Feb. 2, but weather and ice conditions conspired to force the postponement. The weather for this weekend looks like it’ll be great.

More info about Winterlude can be found here:

Winterlude

click to see.

More specifically, some of my hockey mini-paintings were listed in the Toronto Magazine’s Gift Guide that came out on Sat. Nov. 24.

Here’s the online link: Have you been Good?

The paintings are here.

here’s a quick update about some of my current artistic goings-on:

brainmade handworks
The collaborative artworks that I did with Floyd Elzinga of artifice (http://artifice.brainmade.com) will be at Floyd’s booth (K-36) at the One of a Kind Show in Toronto after this Saturday. Floyd will have a booth full of his very cool metal wall sculptures, so if you don’t see the collaborations on display and you would like to have a look, please ask Floyd and he’ll be able to help you out. The pieces will also be at Floyd’s Open Studio in Beamsville, Ontario on Saturday, December 8, so you can see them there as well. Photos of the pieces posted here.

Great Big Smalls III
I will have some of my mini-paintings at the Cube Gallery in Ottawa for their annual Christmas show Nov. 29 – Dec.23. (http://www.cubegallery.ca) Check their website for details. The openings are always a great party if you can make it out.

small gets bigger
I’ve been working on a pretty small scale for the last few years with the mini-paintings and I’ve done upwards of 370 of them so far. This fall, however, I decided to mix it up a bit and I’ve started a series of full sized plywood paintings. They’re looking great so far, and I hope they survive the creation process. For larger pieces the process can be a lot like a road trip: it starts out great but eventually everyone ends up tired, smelly, over-caffeinated and in a state somewhere between irritated and homicidal. Unfortunately, the main drawback of doing larger work is that I’m probably going to be short on mini-paintings until the spring or summer.

• I’ve done some cleaning up on the website, removing some old things and adding some new things:
• new autumn mini-paintings
• ‘Northern Basserel’, which is a large painting with a bit of a comic book feel to it that I did earlier this year.
• a new series of paintings that I’m currently calling ‘flatland people-scapes’. They’re very different than the mini-paintings in terms of the subject matter, and seem to have more in common with the kind of work I did when I was much younger. Check out how history repeats itself

If this banking company had a Canadian branch, I would definitely be putting my money in here:
Triodos

They do ethical banking, and while they might not be big (yet), they at least help to counter-balance ethically-challenged corporations like Shell and ING.

I can’t remember where I first read about them, but the possibility of putting your cash into a carbon neutral fund with a bank that only funds things that are beneficial for people and the planet apparently caused them to get swamped with new customers in the UK. Come on Canadian branch!

I finally just tried to do a checkout to see if I had this shopify thing set up properly, and apparently I don’t!

I’ll post back once I’ve figured out how to fix it.

If you’re in Ottawa at any point during the month of July, you will be able to see the results of the recent collaboration between painter Marcel Guldemond (myself) and sculptor Floyd Elzinga at Chez Lucien in the Byward Market. (137 Murray Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 5M7
Telephone : 613-241-3533 ) This is the first chance for anyone outside of Toronto to see these works up close.

About the work:
Floyd and I have known each other for a longer than we care to remember, but this is the first time we’ve tried working together, and we’re very excited about how well things have been turning out. So far, the working process involves Floyd shipping me chunks of steel from Beamsville to Ottawa, which I then use for paintings, and me shipping paintings to Floyd, which he then incorporates into sculptures. Anyone who knows us will not be surprised to hear that there is an almost appalling lack of planning or forethought involved in the process: I have no real idea what he’s going to do and he has no idea of what I’m going to do. Actually, speaking for myself, I have no real idea of what I’m going to do either, but that’s another story altogether.

Well, enough of the blah-blah-blah-yeah-yeah-whatever writing about art: the working name for this series of work is brainmade handworks, and I’ve posted some of the photos of the pieces here: brainmade handworks online

Floyd’s website
Marcel’s website

cheers,
—
Marcel