Water and Oil is Life, Nonviolence
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I’m Doug Brinkman — a painter, social artist, and citizen free‑press storyteller based in Edmonton. My work lives in the space where public life, storms, symbols, and democracy collide. For nearly two decades I’ve carried a camera, a sketchbook, and a stubborn belief that ordinary citizens can document the world as honestly as any newsroom. The sample paintings on this page come from that same practice: art shaped by events, contradictions, and the restless weather of our shared world.
Intuitive Art, Abstracts of Light and Shadows Art Project, 2021, Acrylic, George W. Bush & Jason Kenney, Gifted to the Honourable Jason Nixon, Government of Alberta. This painting places two public figures in parallel storms. George W. Bush, the painter, is surrounded by the melting steel and fires of war that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Jason Kenney, the roughneck, surrounded by viruses faces a different kind of upheaval: a global pandemic and the cascading impact of collapsing oil prices in Alberta and abroad. Together, they form a study in leadership under pressure, two eras of crisis painted into a single unsettled sky. The terror attacks on the United States followed nineteen years later by a world pandemic, and the effects of falling oil prices here at home in Alberta, and abroad.
