David Lloyd Blackwood, CM, O.Ont (born November 7, 1941) is a Canadian artist.
Blackwood is known chiefly for his intaglio prints, often depicting dramatic historical scenes of Newfoundland outport life and industry, such as shipwrecks, seal hunting, iceberg encounters, and resettlement. He considers himself a "visual storyteller," and also produces paintings, drawings and woodcuts.
Born in Wesleyville, Newfoundland, David Blackwood opened his first art studio in 1956, and in 1959 was awarded a scholarship to study at the Ontario College of Art. After graduating in 1963 he remained in Ontario, where he became Art Master at Trinity College School in Port Hope. Blackwood was involved in establishing an art gallery at Erindale College (a campus of the University of Toronto), now called The Blackwood Gallery in his honour. In 1976, the National Film Board of Canada produced a documentary film about the artist, Blackwood, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.[1] He was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1993, and of the Order of Ontario in 2002. In 2003, he became the first practising artist to be named Honorary Chairman of the Art Gallery of Ontario, which maintains a Blackwood Research Centre and a major collection of his work. Blackwood currently resides in Port Hope, Ontario [2] and keeps a studio in Wesleyville, Newfoundland and Labrador.
A street in Sarnia, Ontario is named after David Blackwood.[3]

Mystic Iran Documentry

An old footage of me painting in Iran

I found this old footage of me painting at my studio. I did this video for a documentary film

directed by an iranian film maker.! The film called mystic Iran directed by Ariana Farshad.

I also found a part of the film on you tube wow .! Ten years ago!!! It went so fast, I was in iran

at that time in my 20s and recently graduated from university.

My Group show february 18 in Montreal

////// I’M NOT THERE.////// Artists: Ronak Kordestani Dinao MacCormick Zohar Melinek Mary Williamson “I hold, instead of a homeland, the transformations of the world.” Nelly Sachs Memory itself is movement; movement not in time but rather through densities. It is movement of thought. A dynamic process always in transformation: always in-moving. Never of a being, but of a becoming; never about the past of the once was, but the past in the making. As the bodies passage through territories, landing on new soil, a new dimension of movement is introduced, and its intersection with the movements of thought (memory) creates a new terrain of intensities. Let’s call it Nostalgia. Using a “traveller’s voice”, Ronak Kordestani’s lyrical paintings and collages, frame parts of this terrain. Her ongoing series passages, narrates her migration experience, through a combination of abstraction and representation. While Kordestani’s paintings explore movements within places, Dinao Macormak’s drawings render movements through time. With her pencil lines and careful use of color, Macormak draws new permutations of her childhood family photographs. On stage, Zohar Melinek and Mary Williamson parallel these works with a performance that evokes a transient psychological and physical journey of two individuals, embodying a connection between ones own displacement and the absence of nationhood. http://www.studiobeluga.ca/ ------- VERNISSAGE: Friday, 18 February 20:00 /// Performance: Nation's Legacy of Severance Zohar Melinek, Mary Williamson 20:00 - 22:00 /// Wine & Cheese ---------- FINISSAGE: 20:00 Film Screening: Measures of the Distance (1988) A Film by Mona Hatoum 21:00 FIlm Screening Fertile Memory (1980) A Film by Michel Khleifi