Art

Canada Remembers

April 29, 2021Art, photography, Uncategorized#Nova Scotia Strong, Art, Canadian Armed Forces, landscape photography, maple leaves, nova scotia, Pacific Spirit Park, photography, RemembranceAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

The sun broke through on our walk this morning in the Pacific Spirit Park illuminating these beautiful young maple leaves as we remember Sub.Lt. Abbigail Cowbrough and her five co-Canadian Armed Forces crew members, Sub-Lieutenant Matthew Pyke, Master Corporal Matthew Cousins, Captain Maxime Miron-Morin, Captain Kevin Hagen and Captain Brenden Ian MacDonald, all lost when their helicopter came down in the Ionian sea a year ago today.

Only eleven days previously Sub.Lt. Cowborough had been playing Amazing Graze on the deck of their ship HMCS Fredericton to honor all those murdered in the mass shooting in her home Province of Nova Scotia.

In Remembrance 🇨🇦 Nova Scotia Strong

when it’s raining outside

April 24, 2021Art, Uncategorizedabstraction, Art, collage, SaturdayAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Collage on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the studio. You never know what a little tearing and recycling will result in. I think I’ll title it “When it’s raining outside.”

world art day

April 15, 2021Art, UncategorizedArt, camellias, Leonardo da Vinci, pencil drawing, world art dayAndrew Seal Leave a comment

On World Art Day, a little plein air drawing of our glorious camellias…

…inspired by “a bramble,” circa 1505, by Leonardo da Vinci whose birthday it is today.

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

the meeting point installed

April 12, 2021Art, Photo Essay, UncategorizedArt, Art of Medicine, BC Health Care Award, because science, Covid-19, ECMO, frontline heroes, gratitude, pencil drawing, science of medicine, VGH ICU, YouTubeAndrew Seal View all 6 comments

I was honored to join my General Surgery colleagues virtually this morning after the recent installation of my charcoal/pencil drawing “The Meeting Point” in the ICU at Vancouver General Hospital. It was also an opportunity to recognize and congratulate the unit’s ECMO team on their recently receiving B.C. Health Care’s Gold Apple Award for their collaborate approach to life-saving patient care.

The drawing was made one year ago to thank our frontline healthcare workers and was donated to the Hospital Foundation. Here is the description that accompanies the piece:

When the Science of Medicine meets the Art of Medicine to save lives in the COVID unit at Vancouver General Hospital. I would like to suggest that ECMO, which stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, could also stand for Ever Compassionate Medical Optimism, thanks to the dedication and bravery of our frontline healthcare workers epitomized by the caring nurse-specialist portrayed in my drawing.

With my gratitude to Katharine Knowles and the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation for accepting my gift and for so thoughtfully hanging it in the Unit, and to Dr Adam Thomas for his photograph which was the inspiration for my drawing.

Enjoy BC Health Care Awards presentation of the inspiring work of the VGH ECMO Unit:

never again

April 8, 2021ArtArt, Holocaust Memorial, holocaust remembrance day, ink drawing, never again, Remembrance, Yom HaShoahAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to honor the six million Jews, men women and children murdered by the Nazis. My ink drawing from today is of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin which we visited in 2007, as we remember and say, “Never Again.”

Humbolt Strong

April 6, 2021Art, photography, Uncategorized#Humboldt Strong, #JerseysforHumboldt, Art, Art studio, Humboldt Broncos, photography, RemembranceAndrew Seal Leave a comment

In remembrance in my studio today on the third anniversary of the Humbolt Broncos tragedy.

#HumboltStrong 🇨🇦

remember her

April 5, 2021Art, photography, UncategorizedArt, camelia, cameliaddiction, Easter Monday, healthcare heroes, photography, RemembranceAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Our beautiful camelias are back and with it my annual cameliaddiction; with a little bouquet of thanks for our healthcare frontline heroes on this Easter Monday. They are very much in our thoughts as our numbers are sadly going in the wrong direction.

I would like to dedicate today’s post to the memory of beautiful 10 year old Aye Myat Thu, who was so cruelly murdered by a military sniper in Myanmar on March 27th. Her story in yesterday’s New York Times under the title, “She Just Fell Down. And Died,” is heartbreaking. Please read it so that her short precious life can be remembered by us all.

Good Friday

April 2, 2021Art, Uncategorizedabstraction, Art, Good Friday, landscape from the imagination, landscape painting, Pacific Spirit Park, watercolorAndrew Seal Leave a comment

A good Friday afternoon on Good Friday in the studio. Wishing everyone a happy and safe Easter weekend as our thoughts are once again of those in Washington on yet another sad day in the American capital.

From Yardwork to Artwork: After the Storm

March 30, 2021Art, Uncategorized#discoverWP, Art, Art studio, artwork, pen and ink drawing, photinia, watercolor, WordPress, Wordpress blogger, yardworkAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

After our recent storm making the most of a downed photinia branch in the studio today, and once again using one of its branches as a pen for the ink drawing.

And so after five years the story returns. Do you remember From Yardwork to Artwork:The Photinia Story Part One. from May 2016.

world theatre day

March 27, 2021Art, UncategorizedArt, Bard on the Beach, Canadian Theatre, Covid-19, Douglas Campbell, portrait painting, World Theatre DayAndrew Seal Leave a comment

Remembering the late and great Douglas Campbell on this World Theatre Day as we look forward to the return of live theatre everywhere and especially our beloved @bardonthebeach here in Vancouver. You have all been sorely missed.

All the world has been a stage this past year and all humanity merely players with far too many sad and lonely exits and far too few comforting and loving entrances. Let’s hope in the coming year we can all soon be with the ones we love once again. It’s been too long.