Today in our Featured Chapbook Artist Feature is an artist whose liquid paintings and eerie atmosphere stem from a particularly Canadian sense of strangeness and isolation. These fluid and carefully composed images are the products of up-and-coming Canadian talent Brendan Flanagan. Flanagan has had numerous successful solo shows since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2007, and he quickly established himself within the Toronto art community. He has been included in several group shows and publications, and has exhibited in North America and Europe.

Tapped by View on Canadian Art as an artist to watch, Flanagan is poised to become a rising talent in the world of young Canadian painters.

For more information and images by Flanagan visit his website at www.brendanflanagan.ca.

Check back soon for the next feautured artist whose work will graze another cover from the latest addition of twenty-five more chapbooks from Ronald P. Frye & Co.

Today, we have present Natalie Howard, a talented Canadian artist who created an original piece of artwork for Austin Campbell's "They Shall Build Anew".

Natalie Anne Howard is an artist from rural Nova Scotia. She has educated herself at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, where she focused much of her time drawing and studied animation during an exchange at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She graduated from NSCAD in 2008 with a major in Intermedia. Natalie's work has a preoccupation with the macabre and the modern myth, often depicting ephemeral, profound and otherworldly moments in a humorous and grotesque way . She currently resides in Portland, Oregon with her husband and cat, where she is spends time drawing, creating comics and animation.

visit her online at: http://www.natalieannehoward.com/

With the resounding success of the first series of books, Ronald P. Frye & Co. is committed to bringing the same quality to each subsequent selection of 25.

25 more books means 25 more artists, one of which is the accomplished Canadian artist Luke Painter.

Luke Painter is an artist, educator and researcher living and working in Toronto. Recent exhibitions of his work include: Revival-esque at Angell Gallery in Toronto (solo 2009) and Par Nature at Bonneau-Samames Art Contemporain in Marseille, France (solo 2009), Pulse New York Art Fair (2009), Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (2009) and the Athina Art Fair in Greece (2009).

Luke has received numerous research and artist grants from Hexagram/Concordia, Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. His work has been reviewed by many notable publications including: Canadian Art, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Now Magazine, Mix Magazine and has recently been included in Carte Blanche Vol 2 – Painting, a national survey of Canadian painters.

Luke is Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at Ontario College of Art and Design and is represented in Toronto by Angell Gallery and Bonneau-Samames Art Contemporain in France.