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WCWA2020

May 12, 2020Art, videoArt, Art studio, arts in medicine, CCME, medical education, WCWAAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

An online exhibition of submissions to White Coat Warm heART (WCWA) as part of this year’s Canadian Conference of Medical Education can now be enjoyed by visiting the Art Gallery at teachingmedicine.com.

A welcome by Dr. Carol Ann Courneya, Director of the WCWA Exhibit, to a Virtual Facilitated Art Session to accompany the exhibition, can be seen at https://mededconference.ca/attend/white-coat-warm-heart This includes a link to seven short videos by some the artists describing their work, including my own below for these two pieces: “In Remembrance” and “The Embrace”.

My thanks to Carol Ann for her long-standing dedication to and leadership of the Arts in Medicine not only for our students but also for the national Academic Medical Community.

modern day superheroes

May 11, 2020Art, photography, UncategorizedArt, covid19, frontline heroes, gratitude, National Nurses Week, nursesareheroesAndrew Seal View all 7 comments

As National Nurses Week begins a chance to say thank you to a lifetime of nursing colleagues and dear friends. They are all amazing and those on the frontline everyday are true modern day superheroes.

mums for mums

May 10, 2020Art, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, family, gratitude, love, mothers's day, mums, watercolorAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

Happy Mother’s Day to the awe-inspiring mums in our family and to all mums everywhere, especially the healthcarehero mums working on the frontline. We thank and love you all.❤️

looking up and looking back

May 7, 2020Art, Painting, Studio 365, Uncategorized365, Art, Art studio, Pacific Spirit Park, pen and ink drawing, photography, postaday, watercolorAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Pacific Spirit Canopy 3.8.15

With our daily walks in the Pacific Spirit Park it seems like a good time to look back to some of the paintings that walking in the Park inspired five years ago.

Studio 365: Day 216

Pacific Spirit Park Variations I – IV 4.8.15

the meeting point

May 3, 2020Art, UncategorizedArt, Art of Medicine, Art studio, Covid-19, ECMO, nurse-specialist, nursesareheroes, pencil drawing, science of medicineAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

When the Science of Medicine meets the Art of Medicine to save lives in the COVID unit at Vancouver General Hospital.

ECMO stands for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation but could also stand for Ever Compassionate Medical Optimism, thanks to the dedication of our frontline healthcare workers epitomized by the caring nurse-specialist portrayed in the picture.

Thanks to Dr. Adam Thomas for his photograph that was the inspiration for my drawing.

language of the soul

April 29, 2020Art, Painting, Uncategorizedacrylic painting, Art, Art studio, ballet, charcoal drawing, dance, Maria Khoreva, national dance day, photography, postadayAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

For National Dance day
Inspired by the always sublime Maria Khoreva, first soloist of the Mariinsky Ballet.

Also an opportunity to revisit a post from three years ago

Dance Studio July 25 2017

for the love of dance continued in the studio this afternoon

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul” Martha Graham

national day of mourning

April 28, 2020Art, drawing, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, Covid-19, frontline heroes, Lorna Breen, national day of mourning, pencil drawingAndrew Seal View all 8 comments

Drawing in the studio today allowed me to spend a few hours in quiet reflection on this National Day Of Mourning, a day that perhaps has never been more meaningful, as we remember and honor those who have lost their lives or been injured from their time in the workplace.

I would particularly like to honor the memory of Dr. Lorna Breen, a New York City emergency room doctor, a true hero, and send heartfelt condolences to her family, colleagues and friends.

The drawing was inspired by a photograph taken by Marco Bertorello in the Covid-19 ward of Maria Pia Hospital in Turin.

spirit wall

April 27, 2020Art, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, Covid-19, gratitude, landscape painting, Pacific Spirit ParkAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

Pacific Spirit IV

Another opportunity to say thank you to all the heroes and heroines out there.
I just can’t say it often enough.

Spirit Wall

tulip fest 2020

April 26, 2020Art, Photo Essay, Uncategorizedchilliwack tulip festival, humour, iPad painting, tulips, Tulips of the Valley, visual pun, watercolorAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

A year ago today we were enjoying our annual visit to the Chilliwack Tulip Festival, which sadly is not open this year. Instead today we are enjoying a mini tulipfest of our own on our deck…

Tulips of the Valley, Chilliwack Tulip Festival

…plus a look back to my first iPad paintings from 2013 inspired by David Hockney…

…and given today’s theme I couldn’t resist including this visual pun from 1984 that really needs no explanation other than the lips were my then 8 year old daughter’s.