Nothing like a wonderful brother

 

Shorelines, The Gatineau River
My Brother Andrew
Acrylic on canvas

12" x 12"

Barbara Muir @ 2008

A recent question from a very young family member got me thinking 

about my brother Andrew.  He is the definition of multi-talented.

The child was asking about a creation from my brother’s jewellery 

design period, when he made money by making pins out of small coloured

pencils.  They were very beautiful, and I still wear one from time

to time.

He also made pins from tiny dried fish that he coated in a resin, and

then attached a pin.  They were gorgeous, and looked like they were

alive. Then as now he was concerned about the ocean, and our wildlife.  

In an earlier art practice he made prints of a character he created called

Hocha, and sold them on the street in Ottawa. 

This whole time my brother was writing, and he’s an amazing writer —

Writing everything, and lately mostly ads.  He’s taken big risks with

his art career, moulding clear forms of plastic figures using his home oven,

then filling a bar with them, and shining a slide show through these 

multiple clear figures.  

So I was thinking of him tonight, of how talented he is in so many

directions.  He hosted a television show about the arts in Ottawa for

awhile, and now occasionally joins his wife Lina to cohost

 a radio show Heavy Friends on a Carleton University station.

He is wildly funny, and kind, and I am so lucky to have him in my life.