Saturday, December 4, 2010

Selections of Pulse East


The Great Wide Open,Huron County ON
Bruce Thomas
34x24
Multi-frame amalgamated on canvas with graphite, pastel spray acrylic and oil, pigmented resin and stencil applied
Sold


Dawn,Parliment Hill Ott, ON
Bruce Thomas
28x24
Multi-frame amalgamated on canvas with graphite, pastel spray acrylic and oil, pigmented resin and stencil applied
550$


Civilization, Ottawa, ON 
Bruce Thomas
28 X 24
Multi-frame amalgamated on canvas with graphite, pastel spray acrylic and oil, pigmented resin and stencil applied.
$550

This is Canada. A policy of distinct cultures. Global. On the cutting edge. One world looking out to another.

How will our domestic natural resource policies dictate what Canada will be in the coming years?


Les Voyageurs, 
Bruce Thomas
30x24
Multi-frame amalgamated on canvas with graphite, pastel spray acrylic and oil, pigmented resin and stencil applied.
Sold

Champlain's career in Canada started in 1603 on a voyage up the St. Lawrence. I say “career” because he had a job as a cartographer, an explorer and a governor of ‘New France’. He carried an astrolabe in order to produce maps and lost it in the wilds of Quebec’s interior sometime around 1613. Someone later found it in 1867 and after a stint in New York it now resides in the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Champlain established and developed a vast trade network over water and land by forming alliances. He was nomadic. Canadians are doing the same now: navigating foreign monetary policy, tariffs, and trade, for our water and our land, in English and French, on the information highway.

My trip east from Revelstoke, BC to PEI took me across 6 time zones from Pacific Time to Newfoundland Time. Canada’s big. Even now.

Where is the furthest remote destination in Canada that have you been?



Halifax Blues, 
Bruce Thomas
36 x 26
Multi-frame amalgamated on canvas with graphite, pastel spray acrylic and oil, pigmented resin and stencil applied.
$650

Halifax is a port town. It has the old world charms and the grittiness and the street edge and the modern amenities. There’s dancing everywhere. Music abounds. In the kitchen. In the big dance clubs. The night life is all about the music.
The Social.
There are five universities.
Good times.

In what Canadian City did you have the most memorable party experience?



Je me souviens de Charlevois, QC 
Bruce Thomas
32 x 22
Multi-frame amalgamated on canvas with graphite, pastel spray acrylic and oil, pigmented resin and stencil applied.
$600

Charlevoix is a haven of artistic innovation abound. Home to RenĂ© Richard, a contemporary of the Group of Seven. Today, it’s an artist’s hub. They maintain a distinct culture and export their distinct culture to the world. There’s a lot of cottage industries: Wine. Art. Woodworking. Hiking. Biking. Boating. Skiing. Culinary.

We now export our culture. And, perhaps our old world charm.




What’s your favourite cottage industry here in Canada?

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