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together apART

May 17, 2020Art, Uncategorized#Nova Scotia Strong, Art, Art studio, Canada Strong, canadian snowbirds, Covid-19, family, love, social distancing, together apart, watercolorAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

What could be better than spending time in the studio virtually with my beautiful artist granddaughter today.

Together apart takes on a whole new meaning.

Sadly whilst we were in the studio word came of the crash of one of the Canadian Snowbird planes with the loss of life of one of its team members, Captain Jenn Casey. This heartbreaking news comes as they have been crossing Canada to pay tribute to those fighting Covid-19. I send my heartfelt condolences to her grieving family and to all of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds team. I would like to dedicate my Kite Under The Rainbow painted today to Captain Casey’s memory. 🇨🇦

Canada Strong. Nova Scotia Strong

world at your feet

May 15, 2020Art, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, Pacific Spirit Park, Pen and Ink, watercolorAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

The Pacific Spirit Park floor came to the studio this afternoon after our daily walk.

need for color

May 14, 2020Art, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, bouquet, Covid-19, National Nurses Week, watercolorAndrew Seal One comment

The need for a little colour in the studio today with this bouquet from the imagination, with thanks as always to our frontline healthcare workers and of course all our nurses as we come to the end of nurses week.

massacre of the innocents

May 13, 2020Art, UncategorizedArena Chapel, Art, Art studio, crimes against humanity, drawing, giotto, Kabul attack, massacre of the innocents, Remembrance, Scrovegni Chapel, sorrowAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

Yesterday’s Massacre of the Innocents in Kabul was simply heartbreaking. This drawing today includes both a sketch based on a Reuter’s photo together with one of a section of Giotto’s Massacre of the Innocents c. 1305 from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, which moved me so much when we visited twenty years ago. There are no words but a need to express with this drawing outrage, despair and remembrance.

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.