Friday, November 13, 2015




November 12: Filmmaker Nelson MacDonald shooting a new studio video on film on a Bolex 16mm.





Next day Nelson flies to Sweden to the Stockholm International Film Festival, where his & Ashley McKenzie's drama '4 Quarters' is one of sixteen films chosen from around the world (it won best short at the Atlantic Film Festival).

Friday, October 30, 2015




NEW WORK OCTOBER 2015



EMIGRANT      2015     oil on canvas      214 X 152 cm.



EMIGRANT ASLEEP  ( PEOPLE IN HOUSES DREAM OF SHIPS, PEOPLE IN SHIPS DREAM OF HOUSES )     2015     oil on canvas     214 X 152 cm



IMMIGRANT-AT-ZERO     2015     oil on canvas      214 X 152 cm.

IMMIGRANT      2015     oil on canvas      214 X 152 cm.




IMMIGRANT ASLEEP  ( PEOPLE IN HOUSES DREAM OF SHIPS, PEOPLE IN SHIPS DREAM OF HOUSES )     2015     oil on canvas     214 X 152 cm



Saturday, September 12, 2015









































NEUTRAL COUNTRY   2015   burdock, acrylic, velcro   81 X 81 X 6 cm
  
BOBBY DARIN   oil on canvas   2015 91.5 X 91.5 X 4 cm


TO McMURDO   2015   oil on wood   46 X 46 cm

LEADBELLY   2015   sod, yarn, gesso, plexiglas   81 X 81 X 4 cm



black sABBAth   2015   acrylic fur   94 X 61 cm

Wednesday, June 17, 2015






















Onni Nordman is a painter from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. His home and studio are on the cliffs of South Bar, overlooking the mouth of Sydney Harbour, the watery highway to the Cabot Strait and Newfoundland.

Onni is the only child of Finnish immigrants Aulis and Toini Nordman. Aulis was born in Nuoramoinen, Sysma, Toini in Sortavala, Rauta-Lahti. They came to Canada in 1951 and were located to Cape Breton, the only Finnish speakers on the island. Onni was born in Canada. Onni’s first language was Finnish and says all three learned English together. The Nordmans adapted to their new country while maintaining strong ties to family in Finland, proud of their heritage.

Onni Nordman’s work is unique, innovative and decidedly contemporary. It is linked to the great traditions of paintings while skillfully moving forward. Formally trained at Nova Scotia School of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax, he returned to Sydney in 1995 for what he thought would be a short time. Circumstances required that he stay on. He continued to work, painting and creating other projects and has been a driving force in the visual art scene in the community for years.

Onni has continued to work with great seriousness and perseverance. One is supposed to get better and he has. He nurtures an aura of seriousness and significance with an emphasis on painting as progressive, developmental, evolutionary. His expertise is a focused, logical mastery of form and structure. The work is not dour or dark. A show of Onni’s work leaves viewers with a memory of glorious colour. It invites viewers to create meaning from their own perceptions of the parallel worlds of pure imagination he creates.

After several years of concentrated studio work Onni Nordman has emerged with a collection of work that can be viewed as a whole or in separate series. He just finished a show in München, “10 Bulls” at Pasinger Fabrik and a two month residency there in Ebenböck-Haus. The work at Galleria Artika was created specifically for this show in Helsinki. This is his first time exhibiting in Finland, his parents’ homeland. It serves as an introduction to the Finnish audience.

June 17 kesäkuu at Galleria Artika, Uudenmaankatu 19 - 21 Helsinki:

Näyttelynsä päätteeksi kanadan-suomalainen taidemaalari Onni Nordman on kehittänyt omaperäisen, kiinostavan ja inspiroivan maalaustekniikan. Nordman kertoo työstään ja monipuolisesta tekniikastaan lisää tässä taiteilijatapaamisessa, johon hän toivottaa tervetulleeksi kaikki nykytaiteesta ja sen mahdollisuuksista kiinnostuneet.
                                                                                Mari Blomroos-Heininen, Galleria Artika












SIX FROM THIS SHOW





SIIRTOLAINEN / EMIGRANT   2015   öljy     132 X 63 cm




 AINO UI / AINO SWIMMING     2014   öljy     86 X 63 cm







LEMMINKÄINEN  (2)     2014     öljy     132 X 63 cm










SAMMON TAONTA / THE FORGING OF THE SAMPO

   2014     öljy     86 X 63 cm







JEPARI NELJÄLLÄ AAMULLA / COP AT FOUR IN THE MORNING     2015     öljy     86 X 63 cm







KULTAINEN SUUVENE  / GOLDEN MOUTHBOAT  (2)     

2014     öljy     80 X 148 cm


Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Monday, April 20, 2015

April 2015

Onni Nordman in München  - 10 bulls - Premiere

siehe   www.onninordman.com

Onni Nordman kommt von der Insel Kap Breton, Neuschottland, an der Ostküste Kanadas. Sein Haus und Atelier liegen auf den Klippen von South Bar, umgeben von den Wellen des Atlantiks.

Wie einst Buffalo Bill hat er für München 10 grosse Cowboys mitgebracht. Die Idee dahinter ist, den japanischen Zen-Weg zur Erleuchtung aus dem 12. Jahrhundert und die amerikanische TV-Cowboy-Show Bonanza zu etwas völlig Neuem zu verbinden. In München ist Weltpremiere.

Seit Jahren lebt er mit diesem Stoff, ist Teil des gemeinsamen Mythos geworden: &Die Fragen, die mich beim Malen interessieren, sind zwei. Die erste ist technisch: Hier ist das Gemälde, die visuelle Maschine. Wie wirkt es? Die zweite ist im weitesten Sinne moralisch: Wessen Geist wohnt darin? Was für ein Kerl steckt dahinter? Was ist seine Auffassung vom guten und schlechten Leben? Was verbirgt er vor dem Betrachter? Was verheimlicht er von sich selbst?

Onni Nordman stammt von Einwanderern ab, sie waren die einzigen Finnen auf der Insel, und er weiss um seine Wurzeln. Seine Partnerin Paula Muise begleitet ihn als Managerin und berichtet für die kanadische Presse. Ihre Ursprünge gehen zurück bis zu Mi'kmaw Indianern und ersten französischen Siedlern. Beide sind aktiv in der Bildenden Kunst- und Theaterszene in Nova Scotia und arbeiten an gemeinsamen Projekten.

Diese 10 Bonanza Bulls und weitere Gemälde aus dieser Serie sind Übersetzungen archaischer, einfacher Symbole in einem seelischen Prozess:  eine elliptische, fast sinnlose Erzählung von einem Cowboy und einer Katze, die gleichzeitig sie selbst und die Welt sind. Aber niemand ist in Gefahr, durch den Kontakt mit diesem Werk erleuchtet zu werden!

http://www.wochenanzeiger-muenchen.de/pasing/kunst+%26+kultur/nachrichten/"Ten+Bulls",72371.html

Thursday, March 19, 2015

TEN BULLS March 2015



































SEARCHING FOR THE BULL     2013     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm










DISCOVERING THE FOOTPRINTS     2013     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm




PERCEIVING THE BULL     2014     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm




CATCHING THE BULL     2014     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm





TAMING THE BULL      2014     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm


RIDING THE BULL HOME     2015     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm



THE BULL FORGOTTEN   2014     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm



BOTH BULL AND SELF FORGOTTEN   2015     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm





REACHING THE SOURCE   2015     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm




REACHING THE SOURCE   2015     oil on canvas     152.5 X 244 cm