Pencil Portraits by MLH, continued ...

Ron Dembo, CEO, Toronto Business Executive

Line 1: Donald Trump, Rick Mercer, 16th century portrait after Andrea del Sarto ,
Line 2: Benazir Bhutto, Melvin Smith - Canadian Refugee, Walter Cronkite,
Line 3: Tony Marchese - local merchant, Albert Einstein, Pamela Anderson

Hugh Laurie aka 'Dr. House' - Television Character

Bob Hope, American humorist


... guess who ...

Sample MLH Photo Portraits (Digital)

'Postal Clerk, 2008'

'Henri Cartier-Bresson Remembers His Youth '

'Granny & Jed'

'Shattered ...'

Fight Club (Digital)

Friday the 13th, June, 2008 ... It was a dark & stormy night ...

... and I was driving back from a friends house near 10pm. Torrential rains, rattling thunder and brilliant lightening made the going rough ...


I passed by a hastily abandoned fair ground. People were running to shelter under wind-swept umbrellas. Others were otherwise soaked to the skin. All the lights on the fairgrounds were ablaze. The ferris wheel was still turning ...



Once home I peered thru the gloom of the night out over the lake and saw that the lovely old blue spruce on the lake edge had been STRUCK. Horror of horrors. it is a mere 20 feet from the house!!! The next morning I had to arrange for the tree to COME DOWN. Immediately.

A fantastic 'tree guy' came to the rescue at 8am. In a rare feat of confident courage he felled that old tree.

We have had much thunder & lightening for the month of June. Much.

The Blue Spruce Comes Down

Lightening struck the Blue Spruce out front ... this is how it looked first thing the next morning ...

The solution? Gus, the tree guy, from Carlisle, on deck at 8 am ...

He brought the old beaut down within an hour ... amazing, considering how long it has stood sentry on the edge of the lake. We figured it was near 70 to 100 years old ... maybe a bit older ...

Gone. Finito. End of an era.

Gus & The Blue Spruce

... Gus, as seen thru my studio window ... By this point, he'd cut off 4/5ths of the limbs. He wouldn't go up higher on account of the 'lightening tear' in the tree (visible in this photo...). Down he came.

Digital photo collage by mlh

'End of an Era: Gus & The Blue Spruce'

This is a LARGE oil painting - 7 feet square.
Done in my signature 'naive surreal folk abstract' style.
It is 'For Sale', as is, unframed, on loose canvas.
It would be GREAT as wall hanging.
Contact me for further details ...

Delicious Peonies ... (Digital)

Garden Shed Series1-4, 2008 (Digital)

Salsa (Digital)

Artists Tools (Digital)

Dreamscape 2 (Digital)

Westfield Pioneer Village, Sugar Shack 2008 (Digital)

Westfield Pioneer Village, Pastoral Seen, 2008 (Digital)

SOLD

Westfield Pioneer Village, Winter Game (Digital)

Westfield Pioneer Village, Maple Syrup Fest, 2008 (Digital)

Westfield Pioneer Village, Back of Schoolhouse, 2008

Back of School House

Bruce Trail Spring Hike, Flamborough County

PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY
by
MARGARET LINDSAY HOLTON

AT

THE ROSEDALE DINER
1164 YONGE STREET
TORONTO, CANADA
( In MID-TOWN TORONTO - a CITY PULSE POINT-
South of St.Clair, North of Bloor, on Yonge
Park opposite in the Rosedale/Summerhill LCBO. )

Opens: April 30th, 2008
Artists' Reception: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
CASH BAR 3-5pm CASH BAR
Closes: End of June 2008

Time: Daily - 11:30am - 11 pm
Reservations/Directions: (416) 923-3122


Condition of Sale: All works must remain on the
walls until closing. Pick-up/delivery arranged thereafter.
All pinhole photographs are signed, dated & numbered
on the back of the images. Shipping Extra.

SEE U THR!! ALL WELCOME!!!

Note: Next 'mlh' pinhole exhibit is at
THE HOMER WATSON PUBLIC ART GALLERY
in Kitchener-Waterloo, Summer 2009.

The Pinhole Peeper! 'LAUNCH' at The Rosedale Diner on May 7th, in Toronto, Canada

Hi folks ... A GREAT 'Opening' EVENT!!! Thanks to all who stopped by. Note: Exhibit closes END of JUNE, 2008, so lotsa time for you 'stragglers' too ! ... mlh

Thank you for your purchase. 

If purchasing from outside Canada, please allow up to two weeks for your item to arrive via Express Post, registered through Canadian Customs.

If within Canada, please allow a week to 10 days from date of purchase.  Thanks.

Margaret Lindsay Holton