For the third time, Art Etobiko is hosting a juried exhibition on New Year’s Eve that celebrates the multiculturalism and richness of our Toronto artist community. This year’s exhibition ran from November 21 to December 21,2024.
Cloverdale Mall,The East Mall,Etobicoke,Ontario
The exhibition presents works by many artists from all over the world who work in Toronto. And this is what distinguishes our exhibition, that it is always multifaceted, rich and bright.
Present the works both in decorative, and illustrations and paintings of artists. There was stand with knitting – knitting techniques were shown. It is wonderful to see the revival of ancient art. The works of artists from India especially stood out.
My works were presented by two plates, painting in the Petrikivka style. This is the second exhibition where I present my works. Last year there were paintings – Petrikivka. This year my collection was replenished with painting on wood. All works are unique, these are author’s works. There is a signature on each of the plates.Size:14″x14″x 1″ One plate is created on a black background. This is a wood base plate.
The second work is an autumn composition, created on an oval plastic tray.Size: 14″x11″x1″. Both works were selected by the jury of the competition and exhibited for visitors to the exhibition. The exhibition was a great success. Many guests from Toronto creative groups attended the opening exhibition on November 21,2024. I am posting a video where you can see the exhibition visually.
This is how this artistically rich year passed. And how did it begin?
Do you remember? This work on paper and the first work – painting on wood. It seems to me that it was so long ago. So many events have passed during this time. So many interesting events and exhibitions, sales and gallery expositions. Taking this opportunity, I congratulate everyone on the upcoming New Year, I wish you success and good luck
A very busy month, as I already informed you in the previous post. Lots of preparations for subsequent presentations, participation in competitions, participation in Christmas markets. It is nice to be at Christmas markets, which are very intense this year. Thanks to such events, I visited several places in Ontario. This year, as last year, I presented to my fans a series of new Christmas balls, painted in the Petrykivka style.
There were a lot of people at the exhibitions. It is impossible to say that they are not interested in this. Many people with pleasure and delight came to my table, touched, admired, bought.
I was so carried away by their creation that I could not stop myself even after the last Christmas market. I like to create New Year’s balls.
This work is very painstaking. A small stroke of paint in the wrong direction, and all the work is in vain. When you hang the ball to dry, you need to be especially careful not to touch the surface that has not yet dried and not to touch the drawing. Then the drawing will be distorted, which is very difficult to remove. Well, and special attention to the smallest products – they are so small that their creation takes additional time and knowledge of technology.
Now Christmas has come and the bazaars are over. Everything that is left is collected and hidden until next year. I would like to note several of the brightest bazaars.
After being selected by a jury, my Christmas balls were sold to several Toronto galleries. They were featured for sale at the Art Etobicoke Christmas Gift Sale Shop Up.
It is worth dedicating you, my dear bots and readers, readers-bots, to the past activities of the past month. The month was eventful and gave eventful results. In December, readers continued to get acquainted with my new book. I am ready to share it with you. Moreover, the book is now on sale online and anyone who is interested in history, who is interested in children’s literature, who loves educational stories for their children – this little book is for you.
If you are a resident of Canada, you can easily buy this book through the online store. Good choice.
Continuing with the topic, I would really like to tell you an interesting story that happened with me at one of the last book presentations. It was a presentation for parents with children. There were not many of them, among six families there was a very restless child who could not sit. Mom tried to calm him down, he kept breaking free and leaving, walking around the room and returning back, but not to her, but joyfully running to me. I interrupted the meeting, joked with him, picked up the baby in my arms and carried him to mom. He sat in her arms for literally a minute, broke free again. He ran across the hall and ran smiling past mom to me. This happened several times until I picked him up. And then a miracle happened. He calmed down and, sitting in my arms, carefully watched me and the people who had gathered in the hall. It wasn’t hard for me to hold him in my arms. The baby’s mother apologized profusely. She asked to give him to her. The baby was capricious and didn’t want it. At the end of the presentation, I always turn to the children and talk to them. And this time too. And when I asked: “What did you like most today?” The girl who was sitting in front stood up and pointed to the baby: “He” We all laughed together. Of course, the baby got his gift. I felt like a young mother. Oh, how difficult it is. So many years have passed since I was a young mother. I have already forgotten how difficult and responsible it is. It was an interesting meeting. As for the next meeting, it will take place in January, after the Christmas holidays. Follow the announcements
We have to publish and write a lot about the current situation in the virtual environment. And in response to the publication of Oxford University that the past year is the year of brain rot , I will say that it is terrible.
I remember my youth and the time of raising children, when, in order to calm the child, I gave him a computer instead of a toy. What came of it? Two children became adepts and their lives are connected with computers. And you tell me, what about trade, the service sector. Horrible. Who in 30 years will serve us, cook food and clean the premises, guard and bring letters? Of course, I am positive, but if you look seriously, then the capture of artificial intelligence of all industries has already confronted me with a problem this year. With scammers and people who hide behind new technologies. When they took double the price from my credit card when paying for an airplane ticket and when I began to find out the state of affairs, they turned on artificial intelligence, essentially a bot. When I was indignant, they once condescendingly answered me that they did not even have an official page on the Internet, and then they put it on a bot again. In this way, you can’t get through, not return. In fact, it’s good that they didn’t cheat with the credit card. And this is the carrier. That is, the system is controlled selectively and is replaced by bots in case of fraud. Great. We’ve lived to see it. With children – their depression and lack of desire to learn and achieve something.
Have you noticed that the protest system today is urinating on fences in the centers of large cities, garbage and a bunch of cans and dirt in parks, on the roads, in cultural places. How to resist – I support those who say that it is necessary to turn off excessive use of the Internet. Create according to interests. And control the flow of information. Well, as an example from me – I created a book. I neglected the Internet community and discovered for myself in this leap year books, the book community, the rustle of pages and live debates in library clubs. And this is wonderful. Two years ago I discovered a Japanese cultural center, which I simply adore for everything it does and represents. Well, and I, as someone who does not understand, wanted to learn the language. But where is there, because this is a completely new world in which I am absolutely blind without an assistant.
The events that take place in this center in Toronto are my assistant and guide. Whenever I have time, I visit it with pleasure.
I enjoy communicating with readers, hearing their wishes and preparing the next publications. I am already preparing a new edition for next year. It will be a bilingual edition, which will create a wider audience and help readers get to know my publications better. Today I will tell you a little about my book, which was published this year. It is dedicated to children who dream of the sea and travel. It also tells about the Ukrainian navy. The book contains short interesting stories about the largest sailing warships, their achievements, major battles, glory and defeats. There is a section dedicated to the fleet of the first Ukrainian republic. It separately tells about the first years of the formation of Ukraine’s independence in 1992. Interesting, exciting, educational, informative.
Many public meetings with readers have already been held and I am pleased that the reading audience is very wide – from small children to older people who, rereading the book, supplement it with their own stories and memories.
Literally tomorrow there will be another meeting with children and their parents. On St. Nicholas Day I will represent the side of wizards, storytellers, give gifts, miracles and a pleasant mood. Well, I invite you, my readers, to this fascinating world and we will meet tomorrow at 4 pm 3015 Winston Churchill Blv.,Mississauga,On
