“It’s important to tell everyone your goals. So many people would love to help you achieve them!” A friend of mine from New York told me this and it stuck.

For the past 5 years I have been working with 3 authors on an artist book featuring the past 20 years of my paintings. One year ago today my brother and his partner passed away and my book is dedicated to them in their honor. Since September 2024, I have been working with William Forrestall and his class at St Thomas University to bring this dream to life with interviews by the students. In this techno digital age, I feel that books are still extremely important and invaluable. My artwork can be found in private and corporate collections around the world. I have shown in over 200 exhibitions, from Tokyo to Paris, London, Iceland and New York.

This book is 208 pages of full color and is extremely important to me and I am SO excited to share it with you all. I hope this book inspires others to follow their dreams showing an in depth look into my work with essays by 7 fantastic Canadian authors. This book will also serve as a way to present a very coherent, in depth look at my work for future artists, writers, collectors, gallery’s and museums that I hope to work with in the future. The design + full book is now completed and within the week I plan to send the design to be printed into a BOOK, just as Pinocchio slowly became a real boy, my story is now becoming a real book. ❤️ The book will be printed and sent out to you by end of school term!

Let’s jump into this -

$20 + donations - you will get the new Zwerg cd, my brothers new music album. Send me an msg on IG, FB or email ([email redacted]) with your address and I will send it to you!

$50 + you will get a soft cover book

$80 + you will get a hard cover book

$1000 + you get an honorable mention in my book + get a hard cover and a limited original print

$2000 +

-honorable mention in my book

- Hard cover book

- an original Jared Betts painting of 20” x 20” made for you

From the bottom of my heart, thank you!

Love,

Jerry