My First Album Cover

I carved separate portraits of all five members of the Hamilton band (and old friends of mine) The Reason. Jeremy Widerman, graphic designer extraordinaire, compiled them together to create the album cover's fluid layout. He has since left the band, which is hilarious because his face is literally ingrained on the cover (bottom left).

The album came out in August 2010. I haven't heard it yet.

j mascis

j mascis

12"X12"

knotty pine

sept. '09

bukowski

my first carving of the new year.

12"X24"

wood carving on knotty pine

commission for jeremiah buchan

good bye love

my dear friend sarah bought my beloved david lynch carving last weekend to give to her barely deserving boyfriend, my boy friend, mr. dallas walzak. 

it warms my heart to both get some shekels and keep it in the family...

knotty pine art show

my first solo show

"Knotty Pine"

Friday June 12, 2009.

As a part of the monthly James North Art Crawl.

The Assembly

(the old sonic unyon store)

22 Wilson Street

Hamilton, ON

Garage door opens at 7pm

jon rae fletch part i

i know i haven't posted in over a month. it isn't because i wasn't doing any new art, it's because it took me a while to finish this:

don't panic, the text is backwards because this carving is turning into a poster.

(see next post)

Neman

Neman Herman Dune

12"X18"

wood carving

knotty pine

2009

Dr. Kent from start to finish

 Dr. Kent

wood carving

2'X4' (plywood)

2009 

uncle orme

steve and sam

herman dune tradesies

Last Wednesday, I had the great privilege of seeing Herman Dune for the second time in one month at the Horseshoe in Toronto.  Their set wasn't as long as last time but it was just as good.

Being the Herman Dune freak that I am, I brought along two copies of a poster I made for their last album, GIANT, to give to them, as a weird fanatical gift.

"Giant"

lino-cut relief print

2005

And in return, not only did they both embrace me with all their french love, David (yaya) gave me their new album.  And needless to say, it's brilliant.

(click on this and find out why they so damn gooooood)

I was going to bring the carving I did of yaya, but then I decided to wait because perhaps they're not quite ready to know how big of a fan I actually am.

"Dun't Schloof"

wood carving on particle board

2007

going going... gone