Robert Achtemichuk

What I see becomes a sort of visual illumination, like a match struck unexpectedly in the dark, a gift, lighting my path into wonder -Virginia Woolf

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A Hole in the Ground revisited

A project of Inter Arts Matrix

Returning to Sandhills Park to draw with artist, Linda Duvall who is here with her project from August 28 to September 8, 2023. During my time in June the white pines over looking the hole beckoned me to draw them.

chalk pastel

Thank you to Inter Art Matrix for choosing me to be in this project. I recognize the funding received by Inter Arts Matrix from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.


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New Work with thanks to Region of Waterloo Arts Fund

  • It is time to celebrate and share work from this past fall and winter, made with the support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
  • Colours have fascinated me all my life.  In these works I used colour in a non-objective way, searching for “inwardness”. This way of working has helped me develop mindfulness – I am also beginning to understand self care.
  • During this time the unknowable in these images frightened me. I often felt lost in their presence, anxious: what are they saying?
  • Now this project is coming to an end. Curating the documentation of this work has helped me find some meaning in the journey. There is gratitude, and peace that feels earned.

I appreciate the support from the Region Waterloo Arts Fund.


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Thank you WRAF

I appreciate the grant from Region of Waterloo Arts Fund for their support for my project: “So Nature deals with us, and takes away”. This research is based in a practice, which supports consciousness as creative. The practice will delve into the sense faculties to communicate in visual terms truthful pragmatic observations, hopefully also involving moments of laughter. It will allow me to draw/paint/research qualities of “inwardness”.

It is about aging and loss, expressing my inner self through non-objective imagery. Beginning a glimpse of vocabulary.


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Our Mutual Friend:

Come to the opening and see how I riffed off of this painting by Alfred Laliberte, and Alex Cameron and Joyce Wieland.

Alfred Laliberte

Our Mutual Friend: A Conversation with the Collection

Opening reception June 3 at 8pm

Robert Achtemichuk, Lisa Birke, Patrick Cull, Laura De Decker, Barbara Hobot and selected works from the Permanent Collection
Curated by Crystal Mowry

I appreciate the support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
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Snowing Outside

These were painted in the last few weeks in between making works for Our Mutual Friends at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery.  Our Mutual Friends opens June 3. Check https://www.kwag.ca/en/exhibitions/Our-Mutual-Friend.asp

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148 April 9 2016 910pmjpg  April 9, 2016 9:10 pm

I appreciate the support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
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Controled Prairie Burn outside Ailsa Craig

Spent the afternoon watching a crew burn fields to remove invasive weeds and shrubs in a historical prairie grass field. The residue adds potassium to the soil which improves growing conditions for prairie grass and flowers.

April 18 2016 330pm

I appreciate the support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
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