John Christopher Maxwell Pratt [December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022]

June 2022

 

Here’s the wonderful obituary by Mireille Eagan, published in The Globe and Mail:

PAINTER CAPTURED THE RUGGED NATURE OF HIS BELOVED NEWFOUNDLAND

Driving to Venus: A Long and Winding Road

(Images: After the Cold War, Driving to Venus – A Long and Winding Road, courtesy Emma Butler Gallery)

Barbara Houston: Under the Same Sky

Born in Saskatchewan, Houston was influenced by Modernist Art and landscape painting as expression of people and place, community and belonging. Leaving the Prairies, she studied at Parson’s School of Design…

Old Christmas Day

It’s been called one of the greatest short stories ever written: James Joyce‘s The Dead, set on The Feast of the Epiphany, opening as Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta,…