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Comics
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
Category Archives: illustration
“Elegy” by Leonard Cohen
A watercolour illustration inspired by “Elegy,” the opening poem in Leonard Cohen’s very first poetry collection, Let Us Compare Mythologies, from 1956. Elegy Do not look for him In brittle mountain streams: They are too cold for any god; … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, montreal, Poetry, watercolour
Tagged elegy, fish, leonard cohen, let us compare mythologies, ocean, winding-sheet
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“To Hell and Back” Illustrations
To Hell and Back: An Anthology of Dante’s Inferno in English Translation was published a few days ago by John Benjamins (Amsterdam). Edited by Tim Smith and Marco Sonzogni, the book runs through all 34 cantos of the Inferno twice, … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, victoria university wellington
Tagged canto XXXIV, Dante, Inferno, john benjamins, Lucifer, marco sonzogni, tim smith, to hell and back, translation
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Assurart Drawings -Papier 2017
Here are the twelve drawings that I created to decorate Assurart‘s booth at the most recent edition of Papier (Montreal), Quebec’s largest contemporary art fair. Assurart is an insurance company specializing in art insurance, and my drawings were intended to … Continue reading
Posted in comics, humour, illustration, montreal
Tagged art fair, art objects, assurart, colette mendenhall, inheritance, insurance, mireille poirier, papier 2017
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My drawings at the Papier 2017 Contemporary Art Fair
Montreal’s Papier is an art fair dedicated exclusively to the paper medium, one of the largest of its kind in North America and the largest contemporary art fair in Quebec. This year I will be among the up-and-coming and most … Continue reading
Posted in bande dessinée, comics, humour, illustration, montreal
Tagged 2017, art fair, art insurance, assurart, contemporary art, l'arsenal, paper, papier
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“East Coker” by T. S. Eliot
My visual adaptation of the last stanza of T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker,” the second poem of his Four Quartets. It was originally published in 1940. Eliot’s remains are interred in the parish church of St. Michael’s in East Coker, … Continue reading
Vimy 1917-2017
Today marks the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of Vimy Ridge (April 9-12, 1917). The Allied victory cost the lives of 3600 Canadians (along with, lest we forget, an unknown, but no doubt horrifyingly high number of Germans). … Continue reading
Posted in illustration, World War One
Tagged angels, battle, body parts, dead soldiers, vimy ridge, william henderson gregory
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“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound (1913)
Two illustrations inspired by the American poet Ezra Pound’s famous and famously short poem, “In a Station of the Metro,” first published in 1913. I have no experience with Chinese and Japanese brush painting, and it is known as a … Continue reading
