~JIM HOLYOAK . . NKD RESIDENCY / NORDIC ARTISTS ‘ CENTRE DALE / NORDISK KUNSTNARSENTER DALE / NORWAY

by sheer coincidence,
must be a super special, mass joyful time to be in . . NORWAY !!
seeing as they are sweeping the 2018 Winter Olympics !!
but, just in general, Norway feels so bursting with new life.
and . . so beautiful.
and then there’s all the old Nordic / Viking tales re-surfacing lately.

gnarly old Nordic tales . . . and, the twisted dark as night, contemporary tales !!
that might be one reason, why JIM HOLYOAK finds himself in Norway. right, now.
he’s a master of the night, animal spirits, monsters, and fabled landscape pen & ink drawings.
and looks like . . ELFS, now too.
JIM is actually in Reykjavik, Iceland right now, arriving in Oslo this Fri Feb 23, 2018.

MONTREAL-BASED artist, JIM HOLYOAK will be in residence at NKD,
along with his friend, and oft-time ‘mural’ collaborator . . MATT SHANE, also Canadian
from March thru May 2018.


see: NKD / NORDIC ARTISTS’ CENTRE DALE – NORWAY


JIM HOLYOAK – INK DRAWING, FEB 8, 2018


JIM HOLYOAK, INK DRAWING, FEB 6, 2018
. . . night monster


JIM HOLYOAK, INK DRAWING, ‘The Mountain Knows Your Name’, Jan 14, 2018
. . . Himalayas, Goechla


JIM HOLYOAK, FEB 11, 2018
. . Year of the Dog

ALL IMAGES VIA INSTAGRAM @jimholyoakj


I see JIM . . made good use of a previous time in . . ICELAND.
he received his ‘Elfs-and Hidden people-research-study diploma’ !!
image via: JIM HOLYOAK / MONSTERS ARE FOR REAL /C.V.

JIM also has an MFA (2011) in Drawing & Painting from Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
he was also an apprentice (2007) . . of master ink painter SHEN LING XIANG in Yangshuo, CHINA.

see: JIM HOLYOAK – BIO / MONSTERS ARE FOR REAL

see: JIM HOLYOAK – ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE / MONSTERSAREFORREAL.com

don’t miss: JIM HOLYOAK / incl MATT SHANE – VIDEO DOCUMENTATION


JIM HOLYOAK – VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
IMAGE VIA . . JIM HOLYOAK / MONSTERS ARE FOR REAL