I am sitting in a Holiday Inn in Peterborough, Ontario. I’m overlooking the Trent Severn Waterway a small body of water framed by railway tracks to the North, and cottages to the south. Since I began painting in 1995 I have heard much of nature is grey, a color expressed through the trunks of trees [...]
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Menachem the Learned, Avrum’s Art
By Avrum Rosensweig Oil on Canvass (2010)
Happy Birthday Mom
Often women do not like to announce their age, so suffice it to say, on May 2, my mother turned an age older than 29 and younger than 81. Mazel tov, Mom. Between the two world wars, a little girl was born to Hinda and Moishe Chaim Flicht. They named her Gitel. She was Menashe’s [...]
