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Dave Wise
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Trying to live authentically in Tkaronto. All images my own. No AI. ☮️🔻🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈🌱 Latest film on hiking, painting, and powwow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct6JJeMVT7w
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‘Eliza escapes across the Ohio River’. Acrylic on waste plastic and baking foil.

Van Gogh was a great admirer of the anti slavery novel ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. In a letter he described it as an “astonishingly beautiful book”.

#canadianart #art #vangogh
A multi coloured Van Gogh inspired ‘Starry Night’ style image illustrating a scene from the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, showing Eliza escaping the slave patrol, across an icy river.
February 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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This past month I’ve been learning about vegan style Caribbean and Afro-American food, with help from chefs such as Bryant Terry and Lloyd Rose. My Jamaican patties have come on well; I’ve got the fat content down without sacrificing taste, and even slipped some beets in!
#vegan #homemade #health
A yellow Jamaican patty on a white plate with spinach, homegrown sprouts, and purple homemade coleslaw.
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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A new painting, acrylic on 24”x36” canvas, that tells of a camping trip to Frontenac in 2025, when I met an owl, plenty of water-snake, and turtles. It’s influenced by the art of Pacita Abad, Norval Morrisseau, and general principles of Anishinaabe art.
#natureart #art #canadianart
A real blue lower half shows a snake curled around a tree and 2 turtles, whilst a light blue sky above has a barred owl flying forward over the upper half of the tree.
February 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Seals under full moon and northern lights, Iceland. Acrylic on waste plastic and tin foil. Inspired by my visit to Iceland in 2025, and the art of Dora Carrington.
#art #nature #natureart #rawart #canart #canadianartist #iceland
3 seals relax in the water at night, behind is a mountain scape lit by full moon and green northern lights. Inspired by a trip to Iceland, Dora Carrington, and the arte povera movement.
January 30, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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‘Latrabjarg’, acrylic on found plastic, with tin foil.
#art #iceland
A painting of a puffin, with the ocean and a volcano behind.
January 26, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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‘Spanish Scene’, oil, ink, and silver foil on glass. One of my favourite works by Dora Carrington. 16.5cm x 20.3cm.
#davesfaves #art #bloomsbury #humanmade #carrington
A couple sit drinking on the right, a monkey sits on the left, behind them is a palm tree and a Spanish seascape.
January 24, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Lovely light this morning.
#art #torontoart #canadianart #natureart
A painting of a geometric style map of Sri Lanka with a peacock inside, in mottled morning light, on an easel with several art pieces behind.
January 23, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Loaded dhal puri roti, from the Island Vegan cookbook by Jamaican-Canadian chef Lloyd Rose. I’ve never made a ‘stuffed crust’ roti before, I need to roll it thinner in future, but I loved the varied textures of this first try.

Resistance takes many forms.

#torontovegan
#vegan
A photograph of a Jamaican style roti with vegetable filling. Topped with white sauce.
January 21, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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‘Leaves’, by Gloria Tamerr Petyarr, of the Anmatyerr people, Utopia, NT, Australia. Original work is 70”x157”, acrylic on canvas.
#davesfaves #art #indigenousart #natureart
Abstract black and white image of flowing lines representing windswept leaves.
January 19, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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The Afro-Vegan cookbook by Bryant Terry is a great cultural resource and learning tool that I’ve been using since Christmas. Today I made his cornbread with pecan dukkah.
#vegan #afrovegan #healthyfood #torontovegan
A slice of cornbread on a plate with homemade berry jam and strawberries. In the background is the remainder of the circular cornbread.
January 18, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Loon on Norah Lake, and an aerial view of my route on the Western Uplands Trail last fall. Acrylic on 20x16” canvas.
#natureart #canadianart
#humanmade #torontoart #algonquin #birds
A painting of a loon on an abstract multicoloured background signifying my 5 day camping trip last fall.
January 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Last Xmas I put a tin-can sun camera in the Upstate NY woods. It’s unsafe for me to visit the US now as I oppose child abuse, etc, so a friend just retrieved the can. The image shows the sun moving thru midday for the entire 1st year of the devil’s 2nd term.
#pinhole #photography #solargraphy
A solar photo showing the sun rising and moving through to afternoon in the woods of Upstate NY for a full year (2025). The white lines show a bright day, the dull lines mean it was cloudy that day.
January 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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I camped on Norah Lake in Algonquin this fall, saw a huge moose and geese flying south past a full moon, and a lonely loon called, it was all very beautiful. I remembered it all recently, so I painted this, acrylic on 16x20” canvas.
#art #nature #canadianart #algonquin
An acrylic painting showing a moose and full moon reflected in water. Geese fly across the moon and a loon swims bottom left. It’s reminiscent of a woodland style painting, but with an Australian tinge.
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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A sacred family scene; Elephants in Sri Lanka, acrylic on 5”x7” canvas, a memory from when I visited Pinnewela in 2014. I’ve really enjoyed taking part in the #ArtAdventCalendar Thanks @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organising!
#animalart #elephants #srilanka
An acrylic painting of a mother elephant standing in a river helping her baby drink. The father is half shown in the right. In the background are 3 more elephants feeding in a tropical green landscape.
December 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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One year exposure of the sun passing over the white pines, Greenfield Centre, Upstate NY, made with a tin can camera onto photo paper. White arcs show sunny days, dark arcs show overcast days. Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#solargraphy #pinhole #photography
The daily arc of the sun is shown for the period of one year, showing as white lines on sunny days and dark lines on overcast days, there are silhouettes of white pine trees and the overall colour cast is green/blue.
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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‘Winter Solstice; The Dark Is Rising - vigilant crows, and trees’. Pinhole photo, made using a 1970’s Nikon, and photo paper. Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#pinhole #photography #wintersolstice
A pinhole photo showing a dark sky, silhouettes of bare trees, some crow nests and a flying crow. The sun is low on the left.
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Stonehenge and crow’, taken with a pinhole camera onto photo paper. Before I left England for good I took a 3 week long walk, sleeping rough, approaching ancient sites as they were meant to be approached. Stonehenge was one such site. Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar #pinhole #photography
Black and white pinhole photo of Stonehenge, with a crow standing before it.
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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A curious fox that came to my camp at sunset in Algonquin, painted acrylic on 16”x20” canvas in the style of Giovanni Segantini, one of my favourite artists. Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#OpenHouse #natureart
#BlueSkyArtShow
#canadianart
A multi coloured painting in the Divisionist style, with an orange and white fox in the middle left, 3 mushrooms bottom right, and 3 trees behind. Behind that is a lake, mountains, and a blue, pink and purple evening sky.
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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‘These simple things are all we have left to trust…’ Natural Earth pigment paint on found birch bark. Between AI, digital art, and the DoubleTalk of journalists, politicians, and their super rich masters, it’s hard to trust. But apples, these I still have faith in. Day 19 of the #ArtAdventCalendar
A green and red apple painted using natural pigments on a piece of birch bark, with the sentence ‘these simple things are all we have left to trust’ written underneath.
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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A few moments from a Christmas walk; people who never have enough time to talk finally gather to discuss family issues far from prying ears, the dog is distracted by the robins among the sumac, me watching it all, sketching, detached. Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#birds #natureart
3 robins surround a brown dog, 1 of the eating red sumac berries. Trees swirl and in arcs, enclosing a couple of hikers at the top left.
December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Red Headed Woodpeckers and Blandings Turtle, acrylic on 16”x20” canvas, based on life I encountered during a day’s hike at Point Pelee. Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#birds #nature #turtle #canadianart
A sunny woodland scene with Lake Ontario visible through golden trees. Two red headed woodpeckers look to the right whilst a yellow and green turtle sits at front, beside a blue stream.
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A snake I painted (acrylic on wood panel) after a long weekend involving much nature viewing and a pow wow. Nature is alive and watching, with eyes everywhere! The ‘Woodland Style’ influence is heavy in this one, I love Morrisseau’s work. Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#natureart #snake #canadianart
Blue, yellow and red coiled snake on a white branch, with a yellow background. Eyes are in the branch, and in the grasses.
December 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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‘Lavender fields under cloudy June skies’. Acrylic on 6”x4” canvas. Painted this yesterday whilst remembering the fields near Shoreham in southern England where I used to have picnics. Nice to think of them now the Toronto winter has hit. Day 15 of the #ArtAdventCalendar
#natureart #canadianartist
Lavender fields are all around a Tudor farmhouse, backed by poplar trees. A green lawn to the left of the house and white morning glory flowers at front complete the painting.
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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‘Gullfoss’. Acrylic on 9”x6” canvas, inspired by a visit this year. I’m eager to return to Iceland, nature seems very prominent there. Humans are relatively few, and waterfalls drown out voices wherever we go.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#iceland #natureart #art #acrylicpainting #canadianart
A 2 tier waterfall dominates the centre of the painting, with green cliffs either side and a stormy sky above.
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Among Mum’s belongings was a photo of a misty island. I’ve no idea where she took it, somewhere in Cornwall or Wales maybe. I figured it was a special place for her, so I painted it in memory of her.
Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#acrylicpainting
#landscapepainting
A mist cloaked pale blue island sits in the calm ocean just offshore of a hillside riddled with multi coloured roots. 5 trees rise vertically. A large bush peeks out from the left hand side of the painting.
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM