@duanenickerson.bsky.social
Artist in rural Canada who explores the visual forms found in forests using oil paint.
"If you want to know what it is like to no longer be the earth's apex intelligence, ask a chicken." Geoffrey Hinton
08.08.2025 14:17 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"If you want to know what it is like to no longer be the earth's apex intelligence, ask a chicken." Geoffrey Hinton
08.08.2025 14:17 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Breath" oil on canvas #canada #painting #art
31.07.2025 16:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Charcoal drawing process "Black Spruce" #drawing #Canada
25.07.2025 17:40 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Dissolution" the making of a painting of the unmaking of a house #canada #art
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"Dwelling" watercolour and guoache on paper
11.07.2025 22:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Memory" Something about meaning making and loss #watercolour #canada
03.07.2025 15:06 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Light plays, time slips away. "Forest Path" oil on canvas #oilpainting #art #canada
11.06.2025 12:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Old growth hemlock forest, Nova Scotia, Canada #art
21.05.2025 20:31 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Hemlock Stand" oil on panel, sold. A reminder of the beauty found in the forest.
02.05.2025 10:51 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Seeing the tracks of time #canada #oilpainting #art
09.04.2025 12:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Resilience - a winter painting #canada #art
29.03.2025 13:05 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hemlock stand, Nova Scotia. Painting peace is a turbulent world.
06.03.2025 11:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Soft slow silent snow #Canada
19.02.2025 01:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Winter in Canada is delicate snow settling in a silent forest. "Fragility" - oil on canvas #Canada #art
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"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Perhaps it's time to review some ancient Greek ideas about leadership. #plato #kings #ancientgreece
14.02.2025 21:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Winter in Canada is a time of stillness. A time of cold. A time of quiet and a time for reflection.
13.02.2025 23:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βCompetition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilizationβ. Peter Kropotkin
06.02.2025 23:51 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Beginning a painting of winter starting with a cold, ominous sky #art #painting #canada
09.01.2025 19:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sometimes an image of the process has its own beauty #canada #art
08.01.2025 16:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
How about them apples?
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Grey November in process #painting #canada #art
24.11.2024 17:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Experts in artificial intelligence (AI) are gathering in San Francisco to talk about how to keep models safe, but uncertainty from the incoming Trump administration overshadows their work.
22.11.2024 13:53 β π 42 π 8 π¬ 3 π 0Finding peace in the close observation of moss #moss #art #painting #canada
21.11.2024 15:07 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Hypnotic patterns created by swirling moss & rushing water, photographed in my backyard of Bretagne π
2 seconds exposures, Huelgoat Forest
#photography #landscapephotography #forest #nature #landscape #naturephotography
the habit of looking closely
20.11.2024 20:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not all forests are the same. Old growth hemlocks in Nova Scotia.
20.11.2024 02:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A bright chalk mark on the wall of time #trees #oilpainting
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