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Canadian visual artist. Liberal slant. Nature lover. Works included in private and public collections internationally. Visit https://www.tonihamelstudio.com for more info.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · May 25

#FreshlySqueezed
"Arbor Day" (cropped), oil on canvas, 16x20 inches, 2025
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #socialrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · May 19

"As Beautiful as Rainbows" - graphite, watercolour, sequins on Fabriano Artistico 300lbs paper, 22x30 inches, 2015 - Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 29

#FromTheVault
"Embellishments", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2021. Private collection.
#contemporarysurrealism #contemporaryart

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 28

Sex offences? Then Trump’s mugshot should be there!

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 17

#FromTheVault
"The stockroom", oil on panel, 12x16 inches, 2017. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #socialrealismart

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thank you

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 9

#FromTheVault
"Even in the quietest moments", oil on canvas, 24x36 inches, 2018. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 2

#FromTheVault
"Town & Country I", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019.
Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 1

❤️❤️

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Apr 1

#FromTheVault
"Town & Country II", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 23

Thank you!

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 23

"Kabuki II (the performance)", oil on canvas, 20x24, 2024. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA www.ckcontemporary.com
#contemporaryart #socialrealism #contemporarypainting

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 19

#FromTheVault
Because "The times they are a-changin' ":
"Flow", graphite on Saunders Waterford paper, 22x30 inches, 2015. Collection of the Government of Ontario.
#elbowsup everyone!

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 17

#FromTheVault
"The visit", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 15

#FromTheVault
"Like a fish out of water", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2020. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism #thegreatwave #hokusai

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 11

it reads as if the orange turd wrote it himself

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · Mar 10

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

OF THE EMPIRE
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 9

same here

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 9

#FromTheVault
"Objects may be closer than they appear", oil on panel, 12x12 inches, 2018. Private collection.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 8

#FreshlySqueezed
"The flood", oil on panel, 12x12 inches, 2025.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of a woman kneeling wiping up water falling from an open window. In the distance, there is a house floating on the water.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 6

#FromTheVault
"T'was a lovely day (a groundskeeper's tale)", oil on panel, 24 inches D, 2019. Collection of J. J. Abrams.
#contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of man in overalls watering plants surrounding a tree, while Peanuts' Woodstock approaches a nest in the tree where his offspring is resting.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 5

He's my hero too.

tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 5

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We Are Canadian

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · Mar 5

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YES. WE. ARE.

We Are Canadian

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas

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