For those of you who don’t know, I run an online gallery of surrealism and imagination with my girlfriend Cathrene. It’s called House of Scratch and was named after a short story written by Cath as a birthday present for me. The goal was to host a monthly online show of amazing art from around the world focusing on the genres of lowbrow, pop-surrealism, fantasy, horror, sci-fi etc. It has since become a bi-monthly show which has proved to be a better format for us. We’re currently in the throes of running our seventh show.

From every show, we’ve picked one of the artists to be in the House of Scratch physical show which will be on exhibit this October at the Hang Man Gallery here in Toronto. So far we’ve got a very impressive group assembled. Well…

In an effort to raise funds for the physical show Cath and I came up with the idea of a painting raffle. I would pony up one of my paintings and House of Scratch would sell tickets for its sale. I chose the painting “Pumpkin Portrait” a smaller piece but a well received one. After three months of selling tickets we decided to close the sale and run the raffle, which we did, this weekend.

We wrote a page all about it and posted it on House of Scratch. If you’re interested in learning all about it follow the link below. It’ll take you to the page on House of Scratch. We posted pictures and a witty write up! Check it out.

For now, that is all. Goodnight.

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