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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace

@derykhouston.bsky.social

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I have mounted one man exhibitions in the former Soviet Union, Scotland, Iraq, Canada and the USA. My work was featured in the NFB documentary "From Baghdad to Peace Country", and is in the permanent collection of the Canadian War museum in Ottawa.

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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4h

Gandhi was a complicated man.
So is life.
Be kind to people especially when it is difficult to do so.

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 12h

Sketching

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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 7h

"orchard" 18"X24" approximately. A hand coloured limited edition silk screen on heavy stock paper.
I love orchards. They represent fertility, seeds and future generations.
www.derykhouston.com

Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d

"Cat on your back" by Deryk Houston
The sculpture featured in the painting is a bronze piece that I bought in Iraq during the sanction years and war. It inspired this painting.
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#art

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 1d

A woman walking in garden - 1887
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed "The farmers Wife" by Helen Rebanks.
All too often the wife works as hard as anyone but does not get the full credit.
It's my impression that her husband James Rebanks fully understands that idea.
Farming is tough.
They grow our food and we must be willing to pay what it is worth.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d

There is a fellow in England's, in the Lake district, who writes about his life as a farmer. He tries to be respectful of the land by "not" embracing industrial farming. His name is James Rebanks. The one I'm enjoying right now is "The Sheppard's Life".
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d

Heisenberg Uncertainty.
Pretty much sums up mankind's future:)
Enjoy every day.
It's a gift!
Please keep in mind, "It's easy to make a Ghost"
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#Blueskybooks 💙📚

Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d

"Hands across the water" (The Beatles.)
It's much easier to build a relationship with your friends.
Much harder to do so with someone you don't trust or understand.
If we don't reach out, then we will not survive as a species.
"It's Easy to Make a Ghost".
www.derykhouston.com
#art🎨

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WavyLinesStill - Peter Smith @wavylinesstill.bsky.social · 1d

candlelight concert………………………………

“seeing the light”

#StreetSnapping #punk.street.pics
#streetphotography #black&white
#monochrome #life #searchtheshadows

“writing with light”

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 1d

Even the wall portrait looks alarmed.

Far Side cartoon set at a skunk party. There’s an argument happening: "Oh, yeah? Well you don't stink! You never did and you never will, you mama's little rose!"

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 2d

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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d

My memoir - "It's easy to Make a Ghost" - an artists journey with his art and why people let our leaders create wars that destroy us.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, simple, ink lines are enough to describe a scene.
Take a moment to have the confidence to just let go with your life.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Some similarities to Canada's Emily Carr.
At least in the brushwork of the right hand hillside.
Emily Carr was able to lock into the magic of the forest.

Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Deryk Houston - "It's easy to make a Ghost"
www.derykhouston.com

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Egon Schiele @artistschiele.bsky.social · 2d

Krumau on the Molde, 1912
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Egon Schiele's "Krumau on the Molde" captures the expressive complexity of the Bohemian town with bold, swirling brushstrokes and a palette rich in earthy tones. The angular structures and intense skies reflect Schiele's unique perspective and emotional intensity, distinguishing his early 20th-century expressionist approach.

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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Deryk Houston 5ftX6ft acrylic on canvas and mixed media.
'It's easy to Make a Ghost" - a memoir about art.
#Blueskyart

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 2d

The Crying Crocodile Tries to Catch the Sun by Karel Appel, 1956
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

© 2016 Karel Appel Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Lot's of love to everyone who is an artist.
Yes...that's you too.
I believe we are all artists at heart, but we tend to get it beaten out of us by adulthood:)
I have posted my memoir on my web page.
www.derykhouston.com

Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Low Winter Sun ...in Beacon Hill Park in Victoria BC Canada.

Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Gardening is art.
Yes...you are an artist!
Here is my Peace Sanctuary project.
It's one thousand feet across ...created on top of a mountain.
The reason behind it and why I do my art,, is in my memoir at
www.derykhouston.com

Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d

Of course we saw this when the British people went out to the streets by the millions.....to protest the Iraq war.
They then went out and voted in the same government!
People do not have the capacity to understand what is going on unfortunately.
"It's easy to make a Ghost"
www.derykhouston.com