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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦
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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · Nov 10
I'm a Canadian artist living in Toronto. Initially I painted landscapes but the pandemic changed me and now I paint everything, except abstract, but it's still early.
Oils, watercolours, textiles
Photo of meat an art show. I'm wearing all black, have shoulder length light brown hair, glasses, seated on a low grey bench with a coffee cup on the floor beside my foot. On the white wall behind me are three of my paintings and signage with my name and initials NB. The paintings are all landscapes, lower left ice and snow on Lake Ontario, upper righ, green hills in Ireland, lower right sunrise with swirling grey clouds and dark foreground. Me all in black, short sleeves, standing among my paintings of flowers L>R Three 5x7 at left on a a grey table, red tulips on an easel, red geraniums in a basket, white tulips on dark blue background, tulips, wildflowers, buttercups and at far right, white cosmos. Me all in black with my paintings of people hanging on a white gallery wall. L>R Six portraits of my art heroes - Van Gogh, Thomson, Turner, Monet, Rembrandt, Pachter, woman with wild black hair, woman looking out a window as she works, man in a yellow overcoat. Me dressed in black holding a turquoise purse and my phone, standing in front of a large painting on a white gallery wall. Painting is people walking down a city street. Towers on each side of the road, cars driving north. Three people walk away and throw a bright magenta shadow behind them towards the viewer.
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jmkeep.bsky.social
If you want there to be a certain kind of art in ten years, you gotta pay for that art now. You gotta make sure small time artists can survive the next ten years. If you can't afford to, then tell people about the art and artists you love. Gush about them. Help others find them.
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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alchemicalrat.bsky.social
The Dream Repository is coming along well, trying to avoid overworking it.
Painting of a tall red brick building looking out of place in a dark forest. The top right hand window is glowing with light but all other windows are dark.
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
I’m creeping along painting so slowly and carefully, trying not to screw this up. Today I worked on the hydro poles and the rocks. Didn’t want to risk painting the wires. Next time.
#artistlife #workinprogress
Centre portion of a large painting of a snowy scene. Grey skies, houses and hydro poles along the top of a hill, hockey players at the bottom of the hill on a small patch of ice with rocks sticking up. Trees, the players and some people watching are unpainted, sketched on pink.
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
I think there's a business case for a service that re-dyes faded black clothing. Charge by the pound, boil them with new black dye, rinse, dry, return. I'd pay.
A selection of folded black tshirts and pants in various levels of fade. Some look grey.
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Aim High
Billie Rae Busby
2022
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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catelli.bsky.social
The utter incompetence of Ford just makes me cry. Everything he touches turns to shit.

It's either made worse by active interference or through deliberate neglect.

"The Ford government is ignoring this file" vs. "The Ford government is engaged with this file." It's "Oh FUCK!" either way.
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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catelli.bsky.social
The province created the program, municipalities followed the program, spent the $$$ and signed contracts and the province yanked the program.

It's mind-blowing waste and mismanagement of our public finances by the Ford government.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Toronto may have to lay off about 1,000 people because of Ontario's speed camera ban: mayor | CBC News
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the city may have to lay off about a thousand workers now that the Ontario government has effectively banned speed cameras in municipalities across the province.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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trebornotrub.bsky.social
Inky Friends: It must be #caturday somewhere. #Cats #cat #ink #art #artyear #eastcoastkin
Three stylised “inky cats” painted in rich washes of ink colour – green, orange, and blue – sitting side by side, watching, like three quiet friends, their simple silhouettes and whiskers giving them a gentle, companionable presence.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
nancybennett.bsky.social
I've been hoping for a second season of Dreaming Whilst Black. Now that it's out, I have to keep waiting till CBC Gem picks it up. Time to re-watch Season 1 I guess.
#DreamingWhilstBlack #CBC
Dreaming Whilst Black series two review – we’re already desperate for series three
Yet again, Adjani Salmon’s masterly comedy is packed with hilarious moments that nail the hell of working in TV and the reality of Black British life. Its finale is superb – and leaves you begging for...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
Mornings are colder and darker now but shopping at the St. Lawrence Market has become a habit. Snuggling down in bed is not an option. Mama needs groceries! The maple items will last me well into next year.
#StLawrenceMarket #Toronto
Sunrise over urban neighbourhood. Trees, houses, a smokestack and a cement tower are silhouetted against the sky. The sky is mostly cloudy but an orange sun burns through close to the horizon. The clouds are in waves of shades of orange, green, purple and grey. My groceries on my kitchen counter. Kitchen utensils and a blender are behind the food. Clockwise from 12:00 - A loaf of multigrain bred, a 1 lb bag of maple sugar, 2 ataulfo mangos on a dozen eggs, bag of green beans, 2 bananas, one orange, two egg tarts, two avocados, a pile of small potatoes, bagels, a bag of cubed orange squash, 1L maple syrup, 1kg jar of plain yogurt, bag of white cheese curds.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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frank-lee.bsky.social
hear hear
charlieangus104.bsky.social Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d
Donald Trump has turned America into a mafia klepto-state.
The Nazis were also shameless crooks and criminals. Herman Goring would have been right at home in Mar-a-Lago.
Here is my latest on gangster fascism and America's number one crime family - the Trumps.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Herman Göring Is Having a Moment
Herman Göring is having a moment.
substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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tdotopenletter.bsky.social
That sick feeling you get when you realize that MAGA would let Trump keeping fucking kids if their gas was just a little cheaper.
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Adult up!
youranoncentral.bsky.social Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d
Exposing the Epstein Network is not going to be politically convenient. If your interest in unravelling a child rape network is to only take down Trump, you aren't interested in justice. Sure it can take him down, but you must adult up; accept it'll take down some of your favourite politicians too.
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
This blah grey day is coming together. I like to so much, I’m nervous about taking every next step.
#workinprogress #art
In-progress painting of a snowy scene, grey skies, distant houses. Skaters playing hockey down in the gully.The people, trees and hydro poles are unpainted, sketched in bright pink.
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
Before the grey rolled in.

#sunrise
Sunrise over an urban neighbourhood. Trees, a smokestack and a cement tower rise above the treeline. A ribbon of orange runs along the horizon with the sun a bright ball of yellow divided by a thin cloud. Above the sun, the clouds are soft in waves of greys, purples and blues.
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
Painting this was an indulgence. Colours like a handful of Smarties, swooping and drooping, a vase made up of shapes. It hangs in my home for now. A 5 yr old came to visit and declared it pretty. I'm feeling pretty pleased now.
#artistlife
Painting, 27x30, vertical grey-green background. A purple vase with vertical ridges holds five tulips all in different colours. Dark pink Deep yellow, red, light pink, lemon yellow. The stems swoop and droop, a few spiky leaves stick up out of the vase twirling and drooping.
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
These people think a foetus is a child, and a child is an adult.
britculpsapp.bsky.social ✨brit✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3d
about to start a sort of registry here
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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photoblair.bsky.social
Mississauga Sunset

#Mississauga #Highway401 #Sunset #Photography
An electronic road sign above Highway 401 at sunset in Mississauga Ontario
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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cjtoronto.bsky.social
It never fucking ends with this crook.

"MPP Chris Glover’s office has discovered they are seizing the land by using the 'Rebuilding Ontario Place Act' which gives the Premier power to override provincial and municipal laws."

Are we going to defend ANYTHING in this province?

#onpoli
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
Fucking Ford. Now he's got the CNE.
chrisgloverndp.bsky.social Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 BREAKING 🚨

My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
I've been missing the sunsets all through the summer. It sets out of view for me till late October. I guess cold temperatures are the trade-off for getting to see this.
#sunset #seasons
Sun sets behind the Toronto skyline. The buildings and trees are all dark silhouettes. The sun in lightest yellow at the horizon, 1/4 from the right. The sky is full of poofy clouds that are orange on the bottom form the sunset and purple-grey on the top. Bits of light blue sky show through near the top. Same view of the Toronto skyline wiht the sun setting behind. TThere's a bad of bright yellow at the horizon, and the pink underside of the clouds. Higher up, the clouds are all grey with fleck of pink that have caught the light.
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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normsworld.bsky.social
Of course the entire school board supervision thing is about the Ford government selling land to their friends! The new grift is afoot! ‘I feel like they’re hiding something’: Secrecy at TDSB’s real estate arm worries trustees www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat... #topoli #onpoli #onted
‘I feel like they’re hiding something’: Increased secrecy at TDSB’s real estate arm worries some trustees
During a board meeting of the Toronto Lands Corporation, the TDSB’s supervisor signalled a forthcoming change in the powerful organization’s operations
www.torontotoday.ca
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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davidhamer1951.bsky.social
Good grief: cancelling the Ontario Bar exams in part because “the process can be stressful”?
Heaven protect people now to be represented in court by snowflakes.
🤷🏼🤔🧐😒🤷🏼
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Jojoba's Witnesses

www.worldofmoose.com/products/joj...
Cartoon: a man stands at his open front door. Two women are standing smiling on the doorstep. One says "Hello. Do you moisturise?". Caption: Jojoba's Witnesses
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
nancybennett.bsky.social
What happens when regulatory "roadblocks" are removed to make things easier for manufacturers. Another reason to #BuyCanadian or at least not buy U.S.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM