One morning everything seemed red or tinged with red. And heeding that ancient nautical warning, ‘Red sky at morn, sailors be warned,’ spent the morning sketching.
As I type this the red has gone, it’s -14C outside the studio and very, very white.
There’s a great space in Downtown Guelph, Ontario, The Red Brick Cafe. From January 05 until March 02, 2026, I have an Exhibition that cover’s quite a few years worth of work. If you’re in that area, please do visit!
If you’re anywhere near Oakville ON Sept 27th you should try to take in this show. Lots of Book Arts people: engravers/papermakers/bookbinders and such as well as a wonderful Museum of Printing with presses, typesetting equipment and an amazing collection of printing ephemera that’d be hard to find elsewhere. My favourite venue to exhibit in.
Here is the direct link to this year’s PE&F 2025 home page:
https://www.howardironworks.org/hiw-pef2025/index.html
Great way to start the day, both engravings that I submitted to INSIGHTS, a juried show, were accepted!
Both are scenes from a trail the pooch and I walk every day.
Another in my series of ‘falling’ objects. Not sure if the Accident Prevention folks would approve, hopefully the Bricklayers Union would.
For some reason I have a desire to illustrate objects that are falling. I’ve done a few over the years. This one, ‘Shape lll’ is one of the most recent.
A wonderful show of Engravers, Papermakers, Bookbinders and more in The Arts & Letters Club, former hangout of The Group of Seven. The many. many Exhibitors are great, the building historic and the walls a who’s who of Canadian Art!
This is it, folks, ‘The weekend after Thanksgiving.’
42 Artists on the Guelph Studio tour are waiting to show you what, and where, they do what they do.
Please drop by 5436 Cty Rd 39 (That’s Silvercreek 1km North of Woodlawn) and see what, and where, I’ve being doing what I do…Printmaking!
A White house with a blue garage door with LOTS of signage./
It’s worth the drive to Oakville, Ontario to see The Howard Ironworks Book Arts Show this next weekend, Sept 28, ’24. There will be Engravers, Papermakers, Bookbinders as well as Demos, Museum Tours and Workshops. The Museum itself is a treat.
Shortly the trees of Southern Ontario will burst into reds and oranges and yellows. This print is an attempt to capture the beauty of a spot the pooch and I frequent for our daily hike.
If you’re in the area, you might consider this show. There are 180 Vendors including, of course, at least one Printmaker.
A nice time of the evening, the mosquitoes and black-flies are gone, the fireplace is glowing and the islands are disappearing into the darkness. Shortly everything it will be so dark there will be no islands, just one big, black shape.
I’m a fan of Southern Ontario’s rapidly disappearing bank barns. This one is just south of Guelph on Hwy #6.
In my mind it’s 4:30 in Southern Ontario and some kid is shoveling food into one end of a bunch of cows after which he will shovel poop away from the other end. In his mind he pictures his girlfriend, who lives in the city, hanging out and having a great time with her friends.
Sniff.
The Historical Society wants this building preserved, Developers want it razed and are letting it go to pieces while the legal wrangling drags on.
This is from a sketch I did in the Holland Marsh area many years ago. I’d done a print but didn’t like it so I put it away. I brought it out a few weeks ago and changed it from day to night and…voila!…I liked it.
If you’re in Windsor this weekend, June 1st or 2nd, please come and visit! It’s a great show in a great venue with many, many artists. So many that, last year, there were two of us named ‘Clive.’
If you do come, and see the other one, tell him that you think I’m much better looking. I think he was annoyed that we shared a name so that should get him going :-)
clive lewis, printmaker 