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@tonihamelstudio.bsky.social

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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#FreshlySqueezed
"Arbor Day" (cropped), oil on canvas, 16x20 inches, 2025
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #socialrealism

25.05.2025 09:04 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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"As Beautiful as Rainbows" - graphite, watercolour, sequins on Fabriano Artistico 300lbs paper, 22x30 inches, 2015 - Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

19.05.2025 08:52 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"Embellishments", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2021. Private collection.
#contemporarysurrealism #contemporaryart

29.04.2025 20:08 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Sex offences? Then Trump’s mugshot should be there!

28.04.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"The stockroom", oil on panel, 12x16 inches, 2017. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #socialrealismart

17.04.2025 10:20 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you

09.04.2025 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"Even in the quietest moments", oil on canvas, 24x36 inches, 2018. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

09.04.2025 08:11 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"Town & Country I", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019.
Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

02.04.2025 10:45 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

❤️❤️

01.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"Town & Country II", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com

01.04.2025 08:38 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

23.03.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

23.03.2025 08:41 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
Because "The times they are a-changin' ":
"Flow", graphite on Saunders Waterford paper, 22x30 inches, 2015. Collection of the Government of Ontario.
#elbowsup everyone!

19.03.2025 09:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"The visit", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

17.03.2025 13:57 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"Like a fish out of water", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #thegreatwave #hokusai

15.03.2025 10:18 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it reads as if the orange turd wrote it himself

11.03.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

10.03.2025 13:33 — 👍 8852    🔁 2806    💬 190    📌 154

same here

09.03.2025 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#FromTheVault
"Objects may be closer than they appear", oil on panel, 12x12 inches, 2018. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

09.03.2025 13:49 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you

08.03.2025 12:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Painting of a woman kneeling wiping up water falling from an open window. In the distance, there is a house floating on the water.

Painting of a woman kneeling wiping up water falling from an open window. In the distance, there is a house floating on the water.

#FreshlySqueezed
"The flood", oil on panel, 12x12 inches, 2025.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

08.03.2025 11:00 — 👍 32    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
Painting of man in overalls watering plants surrounding a tree, while Peanuts' Woodstock approaches a nest in the tree where his offspring is resting.

Painting of man in overalls watering plants surrounding a tree, while Peanuts' Woodstock approaches a nest in the tree where his offspring is resting.

#FromTheVault
"T'was a lovely day (a groundskeeper's tale)", oil on panel, 24 inches D, 2019. Collection of J. J. Abrams.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

06.03.2025 13:11 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

He's my hero too.

05.03.2025 20:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas We Are Canadian

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05.03.2025 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas We Are Canadian

youtu.be/_OzbmriDgQc?...
YES. WE. ARE.

05.03.2025 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Painting of a polar bear standing on an ice floe looking at a group of yellow rubber ducks on the water as they approach.

Painting of a polar bear standing on an ice floe looking at a group of yellow rubber ducks on the water as they approach.

#FromTheVault
"Floaters", oil on canvas, 18x24 inches, 2018. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

05.03.2025 18:16 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

someone should take him to the nearest hospital for a thorough psychiatric evaluation...and leave him there.

05.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Draw your own conclusions:
"Tricksters", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2024.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

04.03.2025 08:50 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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"E-commerce", oil on canvas, 24x20 inches, 2024.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #amazon

28.02.2025 08:37 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sir, you are my hero. We need more Charlie Angus in the world.

24.02.2025 08:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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