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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace
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I have mounted one man exhibitions in the former Soviet Union, Scotland, Iraq, Canada and the USA. My work was featured in the NFB documentary "From Baghdad to Peace Country", and is in the permanent collection of the Canadian War museum in Ottawa.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4h
It was a time when life passed slowly and farmers tended the landscape with love and respect. Living among such tremendous beauty as a young boy helped set the stage for my future interest in becoming a full time artist.
#Art 🎨 #war
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d
Tulip Wind Turbines by Samuel Houston and Deryk Houston
$400,000.00 approximately. (Stainless steel and mixed media)
Approximately 22feet tall.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d
"Peace Sanctuary" - 1000 foot diameter earthenwork art project by artist Deryk Houston
The National film board of Canada featured the project in the documentary "From Baghdad to Peace Country",
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From Baghdad to Peace Country
This documentary is about Canadian artist Deryk Houston, who in 1999, had a life-altering journey to Baghdad. Unable to remain an outside observer of the crisis in Iraq, …
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d
"Peace Sanctuary" - ground art project by Deryk Houston.
1000 feet diameter.
The National film board of Canada featured it in the documentary "From Baghdad to Peace Country" which can be viewed on line.
www.nfb.ca/film/from_ba...

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From Baghdad to Peace Country
This documentary is about Canadian artist Deryk Houston, who in 1999, had a life-altering journey to Baghdad. Unable to remain an outside observer of the crisis in Iraq, …
www.nfb.ca
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d
"Fighter Jet on Mousetrap" - sculpture piece by Deryk Houston, in the permanent collection of the Canadian War museum in Ottawa.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 1d
"It's Easy to Make Ghost" - memoir about my journey through life as an artist and my thoughts on war.
How our leaders profit personally from war and how we let them get away with that.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d
#Art "It's easy to Make a Ghost"
It has been reported that Fighter pilots used to watch violent pornographic video before jumping into their fighter jets to bomb Iraq.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d
Gandhi was a complicated man.
So is life.
Be kind to people especially when it is difficult to do so.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 3d
Sketching
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 2d
"orchard" 18"X24" approximately. A hand coloured limited edition silk screen on heavy stock paper.
I love orchards. They represent fertility, seeds and future generations.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 3d
"Cat on your back" by Deryk Houston
The sculpture featured in the painting is a bronze piece that I bought in Iraq during the sanction years and war. It inspired this painting.
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#art
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 3d
A woman walking in garden - 1887
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 3d
I enjoyed "The farmers Wife" by Helen Rebanks.
All too often the wife works as hard as anyone but does not get the full credit.
It's my impression that her husband James Rebanks fully understands that idea.
Farming is tough.
They grow our food and we must be willing to pay what it is worth.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
There is a fellow in England's, in the Lake district, who writes about his life as a farmer. He tries to be respectful of the land by "not" embracing industrial farming. His name is James Rebanks. The one I'm enjoying right now is "The Sheppard's Life".
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
Heisenberg Uncertainty.
Pretty much sums up mankind's future:)
Enjoy every day.
It's a gift!
Please keep in mind, "It's easy to make a Ghost"
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#Blueskybooks 💙📚
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
"Hands across the water" (The Beatles.)
It's much easier to build a relationship with your friends.
Much harder to do so with someone you don't trust or understand.
If we don't reach out, then we will not survive as a species.
"It's Easy to Make a Ghost".
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#art🎨
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WavyLinesStill - Peter Smith @wavylinesstill.bsky.social · 4d
candlelight concert………………………………

“seeing the light”

#StreetSnapping #punk.street.pics
#streetphotography #black&white
#monochrome #life #searchtheshadows

“writing with light”
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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 4d
Even the wall portrait looks alarmed.
Far Side cartoon set at a skunk party. There’s an argument happening: "Oh, yeah? Well you don't stink! You never did and you never will, you mama's little rose!"
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d
Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 4d
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
My memoir - "It's easy to Make a Ghost" - an artists journey with his art and why people let our leaders create wars that destroy us.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
Sometimes, simple, ink lines are enough to describe a scene.
Take a moment to have the confidence to just let go with your life.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
Some similarities to Canada's Emily Carr.
At least in the brushwork of the right hand hillside.
Emily Carr was able to lock into the magic of the forest.
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social · 4d
Deryk Houston - "It's easy to make a Ghost"
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