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)

POWER/GRID: Graphic Depictions of War

BY Andrew Loman

“I chose a grid-system rather than free-form because it was a history. To me there’s something very stable about the nine-panel grid and I wanted that feeling for it.” So said the St John’s cartoonist Wallace Ryan, explaining the page design he has chosen for The Narrow Way, a graphic memoir about his grandfather’s experiences as a soldier in World War 1.

Clean-Up

BY Molly Clarke

We’re trying to sell the house because none of us want to live here. We have our jobs and our lives and our houses with open concept designs. We all…