In The Sanctuary of the Universal Mind – ELQ Quarterly Magazine, June 2015...
“Art should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality and reveal a part of us we never knew existed.” Bill Evans, Jazz Pianist You know the place; all artists do. It’s a place like no other, the...
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ILLUMINATION – Portraits of Canadian Authors “It started with Charlie”
When I started what is now the ILLUMINATION project, I had no preconceived idea about how it might develop or how long it might take to complete. In the fall of 2013, I was in England for a short work...
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Reaching The Threshold of Cultural Maturity by Bruce Meyer
Reaching The Threshold of Cultural Maturity by Bruce Meyer One of the beautiful things about medieval books can be found in those tiny, ornate images known as “illuminations.” I love to paw over these...
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Why Writing Matters by Angie Abdou
Why does writing matter? I’m tempted to answer that it doesn’t. Oncology matters. Farming matters. Plumbing matters. On grouchy days, I have the same antagonistic response when writers complain that...
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An Illuminating Experience by filmmaker Keegan Knight
I am an Applied Arts student going into my 3rd and final year at Sheridan College for Media Arts in September. My interest and passion for film production and editing began when I was working at a...
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A Photographic Memory by Michelle Berry
I live outside of Toronto and so combine as many meetings I can into each trip down the Don Valley Parkway. And so, the day of my photo shoot at Hart House, I had also booked a meeting with an...
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Why Craft Informs Our Sense Of Humanity by Helen McLean
Kant wrote that the difference between art and craft lies in the fact that what the craftsman sets out to produce is an object for human use, while the artist’s creation has no purpose beyond the...
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Truefitt & Hill – A Passion for Perfection
I wore my white satin with a pink sash, and a special person came in from Truefitt’s to do my hair. He was a restless little man, and talked to himself in French all the time. When he had finished he...
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Rosemary Sullivan wins 2015 Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction
As the creator of the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction award, I would like to thank Mary Osborne, Executive Director, of the Writers Trust of Canada, for kindly inviting me to the 5th...
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AN ILLUMINATING IZEA
IZEA is proud to be an Evening Sponsor of ILLUMINATION, in support of Mark Raynes Roberts, extraordinary crystal art and photographic vision ILLUMINATION: Portraits of Canadian Literature, being...
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JO LEE Magazine Illuminates Canadian Authors.
When I started the ILLUMINATION project in late 2013, I had no idea how it would develop into a multi-disciplined art project combining portrait photography of 150 authors and the creation of a...
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ILLUMINATION in the Media
I would like to personally thank all of the following media outlets listed below, for their kind and generous support of the ILLUMINATION – “Portraits of Canadian Authors and Literature” project. Since...
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ILLUMINATION – Opening Reception, Gardiner Museum, October 27th.
Museum and exhibition impresario, Gail Lord, Lord Cultural Resources, views the ILLUMINATION Crystal Collection before the VIP Opening Reception, October 27th. Many thanks to photographers Teddy...
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ORNAMENTUM – Illuminating Decorative Arts in Canada
Andrea Geddes Poole, President, of the Canadian Society of Decorative Arts, contemplates the hand engraved crystal sculpture ANTHEM, inspired by Leonard Cohen’s famous poem. Having recently joined the...
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