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2022 Review

January 1, 2023UncategorizedAfghanistan, crimes against humanity, family is everything, Happy New Year, Kitsilano, Kitsilano Beach, landscape photography, love, Pacific Spirit Park, Protest Art, Stand with Ukraine, Vancouver, war crimes, WomenLifeFreedomAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

2022 Look Back I

The joy of the luckiest and proudest parents and grandparents in the world celebrating with gratitude our love for our children and our beautiful, amazing and unbelievably talented grandchildren.

Wishing everyone a very Happy, Healthy and Joyful 2023

#FamilyIsEverything

Look Back II

Celebrating two special places that uplifted our spirits throughout the year, from a sunny Pacific Spirit Park to a very snowy Kitsilano.

Look Back III

These final images of the year are to honour its heroes and despise its villains as we stand with the brave people of Ukraine and Iran and with the girls and women of Afghanistan hoping that 2023 brings victory, peace, freedom and justice for them all.

a terrorist state

October 11, 2022UncategorizedCanada stands with Ukraine, President Zelenskyy, Protest Art, Russia is a terrorist state, Stand with Ukraine, Ukraine, United Nations, war crimesAndrew Seal Leave a comment

“Russia has proven once again that this is a terrorist state…Unfortunately you can hardly call for a stable and sane peace as long as an unstable and insane dictatorship exists in your vicinity,”

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN speaking to the General Assembly after Monday’s multiple missile attacks that killed 14 civilians and wounded 97.

“Either it’s victory for Ukraine or defeat for the whole world,”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to the BBC.

21st century massacre of the innocents

July 16, 2022Uncategorizedacrylic painting, crimes against humanity, massacre of the innocents, Protest Art, Stand with Ukraine, sunflowers, sunflowers for Ukraine, war crimesAndrew Seal Leave a comment

This morning it was reported that 353 beautiful, innocent Ukrainian children have been killed by merciless Russian troops under the direction of a despicable war criminal in the Kremlin, and more than 662 children injured since the war began on February 24th. I painted these sunflowers in the studio today in their memory just as I had painted sixteen sunflowers on February 27th when we then learned that 16 children had been killed in the first three days of the war. We continue to grieve with their families as these crimes against humanity continue and hope that the brave people of Ukraine know that they are always in our thoughts and will be each and every day until this twenty first century “massacre of the innocents” is over. 💙💛

bereft

April 9, 2022UncategorizedCanada stands with Ukraine, Canadian National Vimy Memorial, crimes against humanity, photography, Stand with Ukraine, Vimy Ridge Day, war crimesAndrew Seal Leave a comment

As we remember all those brave Canadian soldiers who fought and died in 1917 on this day, a day that commemorates the battle of Vimy Ridge, this statue entitled Canada Bereft from the Vimy Ridge Memorial in Northern France seems to express how we are all feeling today and could perhaps even be thought of as Ukraine Bereft as our thoughts every day are of all those who are dying in yet another senseless and cruel war in which the victims are not just brave Ukrainian soldiers but innocent, defenseless children, women, and the elderly all dying together from torture, starvation and murder at the hands of the ruthless Russian army, all war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Wanted

March 26, 2022UncategorizedArena Chapel, Art, crimes against humanity, giotto, Mariupol, massacre of the innocents, Stand with Ukraine, Ukraine, Wanted, war crimesAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

Wanted for crimes against humanity, the criminal now known as the butcher of Russia, for his merciless massacre of innocent Ukrainian children, men and women, grandparents and parents. Today we learn that many of the over 300 killed in the Mariupol Theatre attack were children and pregnant women sheltering after they had escaped the bombing of the Mariupol Maternity and Children’s Hospital.

This ongoing “Massacre of the Innocents” breaks all of our hearts as it continues unabated, with the fresco by Giotto di Bondoni in the Arena Chapel in Padua as meaningful today as it was when he painted it over nine hundred years ago.

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war crimes

March 20, 2022Uncategorizedcrimes against humanity, international tribunal, never forget, protest, Protest Art, Stand with Ukraine, Ukraine, war crimesAndrew Seal Leave a comment

As the relentless bombing continues today, the war crimes against the people of Ukraine, especially the children, by Putin and his nazified Russian army will never be forgotten. Judgement day for him must come soon, whether from the people of Russia who do not support him, or from the newly proposed Nurenberg-style international tribunal. He has joined the ranks of every evil despot in history becoming a modern-day Hitler with crimes against humanity that have no regard for human life, however young, those beautiful innocent children who are always in my thoughts as I know they are in yours.

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