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What Makes Charles Pachter Tick?

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What Makes Charles Pachter Tick In A Trumpian World? By Stephen Weir. April 5, Huffington Post Too bad Winston Churchill never met Canadian artist Charlie Pachter. The British WW2 Saviour of the Nation might not have given up on aging liberals so quickly when he reportedly opined that "any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains". If you work in the Canadian Art milieu you have will have met Charlie Pachter and seen his work. His huge  Canadian Flag Paintings , The Queen on a Moose, the Pope nose-to-nose with a Moose, the Canadian Moose on a Hudson Bay bag, Hockey Legends. And, of course, Trudeau - younger and elder please. Charlie Pachter with his Canadian flagpaintings He is one of the most recognized contemporary artists and best selling authors, in part because of his passion to use Canadian icons, symbols and faces in the creation of his quirky masterpieces. He is 74-years