Medium: Laser-engraved illustration on natural maple wood

Dimensions: 12 inches x 18 inches

Year: 2025

Rendered with striking detail and raw electricity, this portrait of Toronto bluesman Jack de Keyzer captures the spirit of a street-level legend—equal parts rebel, romantic, and relentless showman.

With fingers forged in smoke and soul, Jack de Keyzer has spent decades turning grit into groove, bending strings and breaking expectations. His guitar doesn’t just play—it howls, growls, and bears witness. Every blistering solo tells a story, every riff another round in a lifelong love affair with the blues.

But this piece isn’t just a tribute—it’s motion, sweat, and memory carved into wood. It honours the spirit of a working-class hero who never left the stage, never faked the flame, and never lost the fire.

Part of the Toronto Rocks series, it fuses street art attitude with folk mythology, creating a living shrine to the artists who built this city’s soundtrack. It’s a celebration. It’s a reckoning. It’s the blues—and it’s still burning.