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Blue Bird Cult

Mette Norrie

Blue Bird Cult - Mette Norrie

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7 Paintings by Rik Lina

Rik Lina

Rik Lina - Dragon Mountain

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Art and the Artist: An Interview with Michelle Dunaway

Merlin Flower

Michelle Dunaway

Listen and you’ll hear the music in Michelle’s paintings. Of course, they wear the responsibility quite lightly. Incisive and mild, caught and emancipated, real and dreamy, they reach within your … [Read more...]

Rik Lina: 5 Paintings

Rik Lina

rik lina - painting - surrealist - featured image

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Meditations: Paintings by Kurt Rostek

Kurt Rostek

Renunication, Mixed media on paper, 22x32, 2006

Kurt Rostek says: education I have for the most part been self educated, with the exception of doing a visual arts diploma from Centennial College, and two years in the Fine Arts program at York … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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