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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social
@tonihamelstudio.bsky.social
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Canadian visual artist. Liberal slant. Nature lover. Works included in private and public collections internationally. Visit https://www.tonihamelstudio.com for more info.
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"Arbor Day" (cropped), oil on canvas, 16x20 inches, 2025
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #socialrealism
May 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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"As Beautiful as Rainbows" - graphite, watercolour, sequins on Fabriano Artistico 300lbs paper, 22x30 inches, 2015 - Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism
May 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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"Embellishments", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2021. Private collection.
#contemporarysurrealism #contemporaryart
April 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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"The stockroom", oil on panel, 12x16 inches, 2017. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #socialrealismart
April 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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"Even in the quietest moments", oil on canvas, 24x36 inches, 2018. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism
April 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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"Town & Country I", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019.
Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com
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April 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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"Town & Country II", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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"Kabuki II (the performance)", oil on canvas, 20x24, 2024. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA www.ckcontemporary.com
#contemporaryart #socialrealism #contemporarypainting
March 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Because "The times they are a-changin' ":
"Flow", graphite on Saunders Waterford paper, 22x30 inches, 2015. Collection of the Government of Ontario.
#elbowsup everyone!
March 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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"The visit", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism
March 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Like a fish out of water", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #thegreatwave #hokusai
March 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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"Objects may be closer than they appear", oil on panel, 12x12 inches, 2018. Private collection.
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March 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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"The flood", oil on panel, 12x12 inches, 2025.
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Painting of a woman kneeling wiping up water falling from an open window. In the distance, there is a house floating on the water.
March 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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"T'was a lovely day (a groundskeeper's tale)", oil on panel, 24 inches D, 2019. Collection of J. J. Abrams.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism
Painting of man in overalls watering plants surrounding a tree, while Peanuts' Woodstock approaches a nest in the tree where his offspring is resting.
March 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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We Are Canadian
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March 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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"Floaters", oil on canvas, 18x24 inches, 2018. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism
Painting of a polar bear standing on an ice floe looking at a group of yellow rubber ducks on the water as they approach.
March 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Draw your own conclusions:
"Tricksters", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2024.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism
March 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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"E-commerce", oil on canvas, 24x20 inches, 2024.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #amazon
February 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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With so much at stake, let's not forget what the fight is about.
This is "The rising (Slava Ukraini)", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2022. Created in honor of a brave nation.
#slavaukraini #standwithukraine
February 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"The watch", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2017. Private collection.
#contemporaryart
Painting of a person wearing a yellow rain jacket standing on a dock on the water, trying to hold on to an iceberg with a red rope.
February 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"Ikebana 3", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #tulip
Painting of two men in the landscape: one man is holding the stem of tulip, and the other is painting the white petals with red stripes.
February 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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"Wet paint 2", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #socialcommentary
Painting of a family sitting in a living room, staring at a sign on the wall that read Wet Paint.
February 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"Fleeting", oil on linen, 12x12 inches (30.5x30.5 cm), February 2025.
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Painting of a man with brush in hand and canvas on the easel, trying to a falling star
February 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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"Fill 'er up", oil on linen, 12x12 inches (30.5x30.5 cm), February 2025.
#contemporarysurrealism #contemporaryart #monochromaticpainting #blue
Blue monochromatic painting of a woman with a hose filling up a cloud hanging from a rope in the sky.
February 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM