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.
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./
If you’re in the area, you might consider this show. There are 180 Vendors including, of course, at least one Printmaker.
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 :-)
This is from a sketch I’d done years ago. The background seemed boring so I kept the trees and added moon, hills & water. The title ‘The Nearness of you,’ was from a song I heard while engraving. Easiest title ever.
My partner loved both reading and campfires, camping gave her all the time she wanted to enjoy both :- ) This is a detail to be incorporated into a much larger print that I’m working towards.
A 3/c engraving.
Another of Southern Ontario’s iconic Bank Barns, so named because of the earth banked up on one side as a ramp leading to the second floor. The ground level at the back leads into the stables with the second floor overhanging to give some protection to outside animals. I drive past this one often and wanted to do an engraving and now, having done this small one, I really want to do a large one with much more detail.
My last show of the year is at The Arts & Letters Club in Toronto, also known as a hangout for The Group of Seven. A great place to visit, the walls are loaded with art from a Who’s Who of Canadian Arts.
There will be many great engravers/printmakers there!
To me this means that supper is done, dishes cleaned, food hauled up beyond the bears’ reach and I’m in the tent. By then the hordes of mosquitoes are making a ruckus outside and that makes being inside and horizontal even more pleasurable :-)
Both entries submitted to Insights, a juried show in Southern Ontario, were accepted. Especially nice because there was a lot of very good art in the show.
An extra treat was that one of my submissions was an ink wash painting that I’d worked up from a sketchbook. It was the first painting I’d ever submitted, anywhere….except maybe a cow drawing submitted to a Fall Fair when i was six. I’ve improved over the years :- )
Enjoy a trip around Guelph with a choice of 50 Artists’ Studios to visit.
Be sure to visit Raven Press/Clive Lewis at 5436 Cty Rd 39 (That’s what Silvercreek Pkwy is named when it runs north of Woodlawn Rd..)
clive lewis, printmaker 