Collected
I’ve started collecting paintings and objects from second hand stores, garage sales, and rummage sales. I see my collecting as a temporary waystation for handmade and artist-made items that have lost their original context but not their meaning. These objects—wooden toys, pottery, paintings, and artifacts—are held for a time, appreciated for their care and intention, and then allowed to continue on to new homes.
Each piece is part of an ongoing story. My role is not to collect permanently, but to witness, preserve, and pass along.
Works by Anton Kohalyk
This series of monochromatic paintings by Anton Kohalyk captures the Peace Country not as spectacle, but as something lived in and returned to—winter after winter. Birch stands, frozen sloughs, moonlit clearings, and soft animal movement emerge through restrained colour and confident palette-knife strokes. These are not photographs of the land, but remembered encounters with it.