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Vivian painting in studio with daughter and grandson

ByVivian December 18, 2021February 18, 2022

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Sow to Sew
ByVivian March 15, 2011November 28, 2021

Last year my boulevard garden yielded, as far as I know, 100% of Canada’s cotton crop. Continuing my quest to live off the land in the city and grow “wearables” not just edibles, it was time to plant this year’s crop. Giving new meaning to,” you reap what you sew,” I gently pried the seeds from…

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Aujourd’hui “Christina” est arrivee en France!
ByVivian July 27, 2010

Early this Spring a very stylish and beautiful woman came to my studio to buy a painting.Her name is Christina. As we looked through some of my portraits her equally stylish and handsome husband asked if I could do his wife’s portrait. Thus began the painting you see today. The next day when Christina arrived at…

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Clockwork orange
ByVivian August 19, 2010

orange in the garden,caro rich tomatoes,carrots,orange stemmed chard,nasturtiums and marigolds Like clockwork, a year to the day, since our last year’s tomato tasting, Corey Mintz shows up at my door to borrow a cup of tomatoes. He was bearing my ORANGE! Kozial shopping basket. I had missed it so badly, a year is along time…

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Toronto Star Article “Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss”
ByVivian February 4, 2011November 28, 2021

New article on me in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/article/932594–artist-in-residence-vivian-reiss Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss – thestar.com Outside, it is your standard, upscale red brick Annex house. Inside, it could be the domicile of the love child of Scheherazade and Salvador Dali.

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The Birthday; A Delight At Any Age
ByVivian December 1, 2010

Touring Hungary, several years ago, I had to laugh as we passed Lake Balaton. Even being used to flowery Hungarian exaggerations, the fact that Hungary is a landlocked nation, and that Lake Balaton is the largest lake in central Europe, Balaton, didn’t seem to be “the great inland sea” that I had always heard it called. What passed as Hungary’s “ocean”…

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A toast to the tomato: tomato tasting, part 3
ByVivian August 18, 2010

This is the recipe I created after last year’s tomato tasting . I used cinnamon bread because the taste of cinnamon and basil are reminiscent of each other. Cinnamon French Toast topped with Tomato Salad Make a tomato salad following “The Remains of the Day” blog post For each serving cut 2 pieces of slightly dry cinnamon bread…

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