On location MARITIMES/CANADA capturing the beauty that remains inside&out of ABANDONED HOMES

PETER EVANCHUCK & HELENE LACELLE 

have been a 'team of two' for over 30 years originating/making/independent creative works for beauty, for fun, for documenting their life and the life of others.

Examples  of their original projects :::  bookshandmade.com publishes alternate new writers/illustrators; GoopMailArt provides free workshops/website site for international shared original works of art; movieshandmade.com has the team of EVANCHUCK & LACELLE making social documentaries, fun docs, feature films.

They started bookshandmade.com when EVANCHUCK had his first bout with thyroid cancer in 2007.  As a cancer repeat survivor, recently EVANCHUCK has, with LACELLE's assistance, got thru his third and fourth surgery, well enough to continue their creative lives, his long term trache allows him to speak like TOM WAITS.

They have just returned from another Maritime roadTOUR shooting UNESCO sitesfor a book/doc. - TantramarMarsh for book/doc on Sir Chas. GD Roberts - They are on the road every month ( that Evanchuck's cancer allows ) documenting Canadians and Canadian 
'way of living/playing'.
click HERE FOR BOOKSHANDMADE

They have had numerous newspaper articles/tv interviews and won numerous awards, citations and distinguished themselves by extensive community work

( Toronto Mayor's Award, Provincial and Ottawa Award as volunteer of the Year ) mainly for their generous work/support/volunteering in Soup Kitchens.

 " Life is not so hard when ur stomach isn't growling" remarks Chef EVANCHUCK.

click HERE FOR PRESS

For 9 years they've produced Sandy Hill's ONE & ONLY art&artisan Festival in Ottawa- free food and fun for the community!

Professor EVANCHUCK has headed up&taught in photography/film/video departments at several Colleges and Universities for over two decades. ( YorkU, Durham,
OttawaU, Algonquin ) artist LACELLE has shown and is represented at numerousgalleries across Canada and the U.S. ( Karsh-Mason, OSA, Art Interiors, Sweet Mabel

Gallery, Labyrinth, Trinity, etc.  

" THE GREATEST BEAUTY THAT LIFE CAN PROVIDE US WITH IS CREATIVE WORK - TO ORIGINATE AND MAKE SOMETHING FROM WITHIN OUR IMAGINATION AND SKILLS IS BEAUTIFUL "