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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"As Beautiful as Rainbows" - graphite, watercolour, sequins on Fabriano Artistico 300lbs paper, 22x30 inches, 2015 - Private collection. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Sex offences? Then Trump’s mugshot should be there!

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#FromTheVault "Even in the quietest moments", oil on canvas, 24x36 inches, 2018. Private collection. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

#FromTheVault "Town & Country I", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#FromTheVault "Town & Country II", oil on canvas, 36x36 inches, 2019. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA - www.ckcontemporary.com

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

"Kabuki II (the performance)", oil on canvas, 20x24, 2024. Available at CK Contemporary, San Francisco, USA www.ckcontemporary.com #contemporaryart #socialrealism #contemporarypainting

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#FromTheVault Because "The times they are a-changin' ": "Flow", graphite on Saunders Waterford paper, 22x30 inches, 2015. Collection of the Government of Ontario. #elbowsup everyone!

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

it reads as if the orange turd wrote it himself

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

OF THE EMPIRE
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

#FromTheVault "Objects may be closer than they appear", oil on panel, 12x12 inches, 2018. Private collection. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

#FromTheVault "T'was a lovely day (a groundskeeper's tale)", oil on panel, 24 inches D, 2019. Collection of J. J. Abrams. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of man in overalls watering plants surrounding a tree, while Peanuts' Woodstock approaches a nest in the tree where his offspring is resting.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

someone should take him to the nearest hospital for a thorough psychiatric evaluation...and leave him there.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Draw your own conclusions: "Tricksters", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2024. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Sir, you are my hero. We need more Charlie Angus in the world.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

With so much at stake, let's not forget what the fight is about. This is "The rising (Slava Ukraini)", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2022. Created in honor of a brave nation. #slavaukraini #standwithukraine

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Yes. Watching the last iceberg melt while trying to hold on to it. Most of my work is about environmental protection

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#FromTheVault "The watch", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2017. Private collection. #contemporaryart

Painting of a person wearing a yellow rain jacket standing on a dock on the water, trying to hold on to an iceberg with a red rope.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

#FromTheVault "Ikebana 3", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2020. Private collection. #contemporaryart #tulip

Painting of two men in the landscape: one man is holding the stem of tulip, and the other is painting the white petals with red stripes.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#Fromthevault It seems to be Deja Vu all over again: "The plot (First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin)", oil on canvas, 12x16, 2020. Created when Trump was elected to his first term in office. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of two men, one older and the other younger, standing in front of a blackboard, The older man points to the drawn map of the world on the board, specifically to a boat occupied by two men in the middle of the Atlantic as they navigate from Manhattan toward Berlin.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

From the "Exotic fruits" series: "The space between", oil on canvas, 20x24 inches, 2022. Available at www.ckcontemporary.com San Francisco, CA USA #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

From my "Exotic fruits" series: "Seedlings", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2021. Private collection. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of a woman in a landscape watering a couple of tree-shaped car fresheners mounted on sticks.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I feel like we all need it right now... "The rescue", graphite and watercolor on paper, 16x20 inches, 2010 #rescue #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

two nurses holding up two ladders to allow people below to climb up and be rescued

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

From "Exotic fruits": "Prototype I", oil on canvas, 30x30 inches, 2019-2022. Private collection. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of two men standing in a landscape next to a huge pigeon, checking the blueprint by which the pigeon was created.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

From the "Exotic fruit" series: "The activist II (Stay)", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2022. Private collection. #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of a man wearing a yellow raincoat standing on an ice floe, writing "Stay" on the underbelly of an orca as she stands upright in the water while the man writes.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

From my "Exotic fruits" series: "At the museum I", oil on canvas, 16x20 inches, 2021/2023. Available at www.tonihamelstudio.com #contemporaryart #contemporarysurrealism

Painting of a man in a museum, standing in front of a Lawren Harris' painting that is slowly melting.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I unintentionally deleted this post, so here's again (that shows how inept I am with this app - steep learning curve for me, lol!): "Last call", oil on canvas, 24x24 inches, 2022. Private collection.

Painting on an iceberg in the ocean with an activist harnessed and hanging from a rope, writing "Last Call" on the iceberg's wall

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

#contemporarysurrealism #contemporaryart From my "In lieu of better days" body of work: "In lieu of better days", oil on canvas, 18x18 inches, 2024. Private collection.

Painting of a man painting a rainbow in front of a dark, ominous sky.

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tonihamelstudio.bsky.social @tonihamelstudio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Not really, neither her nor the other anchors have the courage to speak truth to power. I’ll stick with MSNBC

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