1964-, Toronto, ON (Lives in Rothesay, NB)

Local artist Paul Healey's trademark paintings are light filled interiors, ambient landscapes and sultry provocative figure studies painted in exquisitely subtle tonalities. His paintings invite the viewer into a world of repose and serenity, far from the bustling dynamics of modern life. Critics have described his work as reminiscent of a younger more contemporary Joseph Plaskett.

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1952-, Hall's Harbour, NS (Lives between Saint John, NB and Maine, USA)

A native of Nova Scotia, Neville was born in Halls Harbour, on the Bay of Fundy, to a family of boat builders and fishermen where hard work was taken for granted. He grew up fishing with his father, building boats, and listening to the tales of men and women in the local villages. There were stories about bootlegging, bad luck, record catches, rivalries, and drunken husbands—all of which became the basis for his rich pictorial language.

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1957-, Saint John, NB

Gerard (Gerry) Collins' work is bright, sometimes impressionistic and often composed with characteristically wild strokes that his collectors have come to love. His paintings often come from scenes around his home, including florals. Collins' work features both vibrant colous of paint, uniquely dark pastels and, occassionally, unique subject matter. A unique note about this artist is that he often paints cats into his paintings and is a great cat lover himself.

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Member

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1940-, Holland

Alexis Arts immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1955. His father was a well-known painter in the Netherlands, and it was under his father`s guidance that he began to paint. He studied Fine Arts in Montreal. Over the years, the artist has traveled widely throughout Quebec, familiarizing himself with the countryside and deepening his understanding of the province. He loves to paint anything that is close to nature and he has a very poetic vision of his environment.

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1910-1990, Calgary, AB (Lived in Montreal, QC)

"Each individual is alone, cut off. Each wonders how others cope with life. A work of art is a particularly complex statement, valuable because packed with meaning... Like icebergs, four-fifths of our personalities lie below the surface; of the fifth that shows, only part can be expressed in conversation. The only effective outlet for all deeper feelings and thoughts is art."
(Philip Surrey, c. 1949)

Philip Surrey, a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society, was a figurative painter with an enduring interest in human subjects within urban nightscapes.

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Glenn Priestley attended the Vocational Arts Program at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario.

He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art Fine Arts Programme, where he studied in Florence. Glenn's understanding of the figure was further enhanced through study of Anatomy at the University of Toronto. He has taught at numerous institutions including the Ontario College of Art.

In 1996 he left Ontario and moved with his family to Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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1887 - 1956

Wallace R. MacAskill is one of Nova Scotia's best-known photographers, valued especially for his seascapes and images of sailing vessels.

During WW II, MacAskill's images became coveted by homesick Nova Scotians abroad and were very popular wedding presents.20 This popularity probably grew out of a world in flux - people began to thirst for the homey and familiar security of the past as captured on MacAskill's film. The age of sail, Cape Breton hills and dales, picturesque fishing villages, boating on the North West Arm - all were cherished by displaced Nova Scotians in Canada and abroad.

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1935- , St. John's, NL

Pratt has received many awards and honours. He became an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art. Pratt was also named an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1983 he became a Companion of the Order.

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1927-2006, Saint John, NB

Olive became a full time artist in the 1980's and produced many popular works of art for friends, family and collectors world wide.

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Jamie MacDonald is a graduate of Queen’s University, B.A. (Hons.) and B.Ed., and a resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He paints landscapes and illustrations, but also enjoys the occasional portrait. His goal is to reveal the unique story of each place person, and to tell that story as best he can.

Jamie finds time to paint while acting as a fencing coach, pursuing guitar and piloting, practicing the craft of writing, and working full-time as a junior/intermediate teacher of art and history.

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Currently resides on Deer Island, West Isles, New Brunswick.

Jerome has been a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer since 1978. His work has ranged from land and seascapes to surrealistic fantasies and impressionistic watercolours and drawings. His art is represented in many American and Canadian corporate and private collections.

Member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.

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Canadian artist.

“If, after the first hours or days in a painting, I am successful in capturing the thing I saw or felt, I am amazed, and thank Providence for the gift of the ability to do this. I tell you, this is great work if you can get it, but I could use two lifetimes to paint all the things I want to paint.”

- Jackson Ehrlich

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1909-1980 

Aldwinckle was a designer, illustrator and well known war artist. In World War II he registered as a conscientious objector, and created several well-known war posters, then became a camouflage designer. He visited the Soviet Union as part of the first Canadian cultural exchange of the Cold War. He was a student of comparative religion, an accomplished chef, raconteur, composer, playwright, writer, and social critic. 

Canadian War Artist, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Member

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A French-Canadian artist stationed in Québec whose art focuses mostly on quaint country beauty.

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1953-

A Canadian contemporary-realist living in New Brunswick, Canada.

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Berthe des Clayes (1877 –1968) was a Scottish-born artist who lived in England and Canada. She was born in Aberdeen and studied at the Bushey School of Art with H.Herkomer and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre.

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Saint John, New Brunswick (1928-2009)

A graduate of Teachers College in Fredericton, she taught in several Saint John schools. A life-long artist and supporter of fine arts, she served on the board of the Saint John Arts Council and was a member of the Saint John Women's Symphony Committee.

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Born 1949-

Husband of artist Ruth Coleman. Acrylics painting, oil painting, cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes of Atlantic Canada

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Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1950 -- of Lithuanian ancestry.

Herzl Kashetsky's work in the early 1980s tended to reflect subjects common to the magic realist school, especially still life, focusing on every day objects with an intensity that inevitably invests them with new and deeper meaning... In 1997 he received the New Brunswick Red Cross Humanitarian Award, and a best picture award at the 53rd annual exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.

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Leighton studied at the Brighton School of Art and the Slade School before perfecting her preferred medium, wood engraving, at Britain’s Central School of Arts and Crafts. She favored depictions of rural and working class activities. In the 1920's Leighton traveled across Europe and to America where she ultimately settled.

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Born 1964, Robert studied Fine Art at Sunderland University and is currently living and working in Northumberland, England.

“I describe my work as ‘Painting Nature’, as a direct response to my immediate surroundings, exploring colour, composition and expression yet maintaining the very traditions of painting. Making sketches as well my own visual notes I paint intuitively and expressively with bold sweeping brushstrokes that sum up whole passages of the landscape that is before me. Painting on location and in the studio, I often rework paintings intuitively to produce a completed work.”

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Cornelius is an artist from the woody wilderness of New Brunswick, Canada who lives an almost "stereotypical Canadian" lifestyle. In his cabin in the woods, where he resides year-round, mostly off the land. He comes into the gallery to deliver his work personally and always has a big bushy beard and a great big friendly smile.

Cornelius's art is a fun and, usually, iconically Canadian.

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French Canadian artist, born 1948, died 1990.

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1874 - 1941

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied drawing and painting under William Brymner, Maurice Cullen and Edmond Dyonnet at the school of the Art Association of Montreal. He worked 11 years in the stained glass industry making drawings for ornaments and figures and then for La Presse and the Montreal Star doing pen and ink drawings. He was a designer and illustrator for magazines but eventually turned to full time painting particularly of old buildings and ancient areas of Montreal and Quebec City

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Brian Kelley was born in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.  He has an MFA in Painting from Indiana University and a BA from the College of William and Mary.  He has exhibited nationally and lectured at several schools, including George Washington University, the College of William and Mary, George Mason University, Anne Arundel Community College, Prince George’s Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, and the Washington Studio School. 

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Canadian artist born in Barbados during his parent's stay in their summer home. William Goodridge Roberts was a Canadian painter known for his landscape paintings and unassuming still lifes and interiors. Goodridge Roberts was the son of poet and novelist Theodore Goodridge Roberts and Frances Seymour Allen.

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Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture.

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Gaston Rebry is a Quebec painter of Belgian birth.

Born on October 30 1933 in Wevelgem in Belgium he died in Shawinigan on January 5th 2007.  He was the son of Belgian bicycle racer Gaston Rebry (1909-1953) and was also a bicycle racer in the 1950s in Europe.

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Born 1938 in Monteal, Québec

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French-Canadian. Born 1938, Québec, Canada.

Leaving a successful business life in commercial art and advertising behind him, he boarded a plane for Western Canada, bringing with him 20 pastel paintings, all done on location in Québec. 

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French-Canadian artist born in 1929.

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Catharine McAvity (1915-1999) was a prolific and well established artist based in New Brunswick, Canada. She studied with many important artists including Jack Humphrey, Miller Brittain, Tony Onley, Christopher Pratt, Ken Louhhead, Ron Bloor among others.
Her work has been exhibited widely in the Maritimes and featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. Her work is found in many museums and galleries as well as prominent collections (add link). The University of New Brunswick honoured her by naming a lecture room after her at the Saint John campus.

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Born 1933 in Saint-Michel-de-Wentworth, Québec, Canada, Lecor is a singer, comedian painter and folk painter (post-1978).

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Australian-born artist living in Canada

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Born 1887, died in Montréal, Québec, Canada 1980.

Full member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1944.

Adam Sherriff Scott was born in Perth, Scotland and began his art education in 1903 at the Edinburgh School of Art. He was awarded the Allen-Fraser Scholarship to continue his studies for four years at the Allen-Fraser institute, which was a finishing school for talented young artists, and studied under George Harcourt A.R.A. He was one of only ten artists who qualified for the scholarship. 

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1929-, Manila, Phillippines (Lives in Vancouver, BC)

One of Canada’s most celebrated artists, Trinidad has built an international reputation as far reaching as the sources of his inspiration. He studied and painted extensively in France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and England.

Trinidad currently resides in Vancouver which provides the ideal environment for his oil paintings which are entrenched with joyful colours, vibrant flowers and the uncanny play of sunlight and shadow. Although poetic at heart, José approaches his art with the seriousness of a disciplined craftsman with painstaking care and details.

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Spain-born artist

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Fortin worked as a graphic artist with the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources and taught art briefly at the University of Ottawa. His work, originally non-figurative, gradually evolved into a naïve folk art style heavily influenced by his rural surroundings. After deciding to do art full time he would teach independently around Ottawa as well as tour Europe studying techniques and selling his art.

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Michael's art is characterized by masterful drawing, and an unusual sensitivity to the subtleties of detail, form, colour, and composition. Wildlife Art magazine founder, Robert J. Koenke acknowledges both the uniqueness and international recognition of Dumas' art when he says, ' I can recognize a Michael Dumas work from across a room, or pick it out from among a crowd of other artists.

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"I realized that a move to Cape Cod Massachusetts from Boston, would be more beneficial to my art, as I could explore the seaside and absorb the landscape for my painting."

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1899 - 1987

Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City. He also wrote several books on his life and art.
His brothers Moses Soyer and Isaac Soyer were also painters.

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Pierre Lefebvre paints portraits, interior scenes and still lifes. In his portraits, there is a subtle reference to the artist himself; these individuals are very distinguished and reserved. His compositions are structured, often geometric and always engaging. 

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1882 - 1953

For David Milne, painter, printmaker, and writer, the process of art and not the content was paramount. His austere work and his pure aesthetic depended on the formulation and solution of certain formal, artistic problems and the consistent development and concentration of his inner self. In simple terms, Milne sought to reduce a painting to its essentials.

Milne was strongly influenced by both American and French Impressionism, especially the work of Claude Monet and by Henri Matisse. Milne integrated these influences into his own special way of seeing and painting. He painted the simplest subjects - houses, barns, flowers, trees and still lifes - but it was the landscape that dominated much of his production. 

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Jewish Polish-Canadian, born in Montréal, Quebec, 1936.

Member of the Royal Canadian Academy

Printmaker David Silverberg has been concerned with a variety of subjects, in particular nature, erotica, scenes from the many countries he visited and Jewish themes, as in his illustrations for The Song of Songs and The Psalms of David (1967). In an interview with Nancy Bauer in 1980, the artist describes how Judaism generally affects his art, for as a Jewish man he is constantly preoccupied with the commandment, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." He enjoys the resistance of metal in the engraving process perhaps because it reflects the tension between the artist and this ancient belief. 

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Scottish. 1850-1916

Many of Black's paintings are of fishing scenes and shorelines in Scotland, capturing the feeling of the cold skies and wet weather beautifully.

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F. B. Taylor was a Canadian artist, born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1906 and died in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico  (by suicide ) in 1987, where he had been trying his had at silk screen painting and scultping.

e was born in Ottawa and mostly raised there; living briefly in London, England from 1916 to 1918 after his father was transferred there during the First World War. Upon returning to Ottawa, he graduated from Lisgar Collegiate in 1918. He became a student of McGill University in 1925 after his parents asserted that he must complete university before embarking on any sort of artistic career.

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(1908-1982)

Albert Rousseau was born in Sainte-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Quebec in 1908. He is often associated with important Quebec landscape painters René Richard and Léo Ayotte; although Rousseau experimented with many genres of painting, including portraiture and gestural painting, he found landscapes and images of quaint neighbourhoods most intriguing to paint.

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1923 - 2001

Born in Toronto. As a teenager he attended classes at the Children’s Art Centre of the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he was encouraged by such artists as Arthur Lismer, Erma Sutcliffe, Dorothy Medhurst, and A. Y. Jackson. He later studied at the Académie Julian.

Appointed an official war artist in 1944. Joined the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1958. Made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1979.

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1938-2010

France

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1940 - 2010

Bruno Côté was born in Quebec City in August 1940. His youth in a family where art held a strong significance encouraged the development of his artistic talents.

In 2008 the Canadian Parliament gave Côté's painting, The Portage Trail to the Parliament of Scotland to mark the opening of the Scottish Parliament Building.[3]

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1947-1977

Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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James Wilson has been an artist working in the medium of photography for more than 30 years. James works from his heritage home and natural light studio in the beautiful Kennebecasis River Valley near Hampton New Brunswick, Canada. He uses large format cameras mostly, making images of the land or to document people in great detail. James’s new work involves digital photography, merging image layers and textures to create new images that challenge your emotions.

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Canadian, active. Lives in St. Andrews and New Hampshire, Maine.

John Amos studied Fine Art in New Brunswick at Mount Allison University, from 1970 to 1974, where he embraced the watercolour medium for which he is so highly regarded.

Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, John grew up watching the coastal waters of the Bay of Fundy, where the tides rise and fall twenty-eight feet twice a day. These ever changing surroundings provided his affinity for depicting New Brunswick’s evolving shoreline.

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Dusan Kadlec is a Czech-Canadian painter, born in Prague (1942), Czechoslovakia and studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Soon after the success of the Worlds Fair pavilion, political unrest began to affect life in Czechoslovakia. When the Soviet Union invaded during the Prague Spring revolution of 1968, Kadlec fled his homeland and immigrated to Canada, settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He immediately began to look for work as an artist, and within two weeks secured his first commission - a portrait. He found the historic charm of his newly adopted port city inspirational and began at that time what would subsequently become the focus of his life’s work. Re-creating maritime history on canvas.

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Julius Griffith was born in Vancouver, BC in 1912, later moving to England with his family where he studied art. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of WWII. During the war he worked with the “Air-raid Precautions” for a time and eventually joined the Red Cross. In 1941-42 he worked in a country-house hospital in Sussex. While there, he taught art and learned Russian. He joined the Royal Navy as an interpreter under the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. From 1942 till the end of the war Griffith was stationed in Murmansk and Archangel.

Griffith passed away in 1997.

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Born 1937.

Hungarian-Canadian Julius Damasday lives in Canada and Hungary.  Julius Damasday is known for his sculptures and paintings.

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Elizabeth Marjorie Smith was born on [April] 7, 1898 at Iden, near Rye, Sussex, England, the daughter of Edwin James Smith and Beatrice Neeves. In 1901, the family, including four boys and three girls, moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick. Smith graduated from Fredericton High School in 1917. It was during this time that Smith became interested in photography. She began taking snapshots with a box camera and a vest pocket camera. Smith went to work at Harvey Studios and remained there until 1930. Finally, in 1936, she became proprietress of her own shop at 518 Queen Street. She sold hand-coloured photographs and she also introduced Deichmann pottery to her customers.

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René Richard (1 December 1895 – 31 March 1982) was Swiss-born Canadian painter known for his semi-abstract landscapes of the Canadian wilderness and of the country around Baie-Saint-Paul in Quebec.

Unlike other Canadian landscapes, Richard's pictures often included trappers, hunters and the Inuit and First Nations people who lived in the north country, with their homes and sled dogs. Richard's landscapes became highly valued by collectors. When Queen Elizabeth II visited Canada in 1959 she was given one of Richard's paintings by the mayor of Chicoutimi.

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Ronald Jackson was long recognized for his masterful depiction's of British Columbia's magnificent coastal region. In his themes, his flowing quality of line and his subtle use of colour, one can see that Ronald Jackson was deeply involved in interpreting the power of the Canadian Landscape - a Canadian tradition he shared with such eminent painters as Lauren Harris, A.Y. Jackson and Emily Carr. One of the things Ronald prided himself on was that he never had a complaint about any of his marine paintings from a sailor or anyone who knows anything about boats - and some sailors roar with laughter at some marine paintings.

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1907 - 1997

Latvian

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1790-1851, British.

This artist is known for his works on copper panels with oil. Not to be confused with William Moor Jr., his son.

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1909-1976, Canadian

Born in Sainte-Flore, Mauricie, Quebec to a family of modest means, he began his studies at the College Séraphique and at Trois-Rivières Seminary, and finally, in Nicolet. He abandoned his studies at the end of his rhetoric and began to compose poems and paint.
In 1938, Ayotte moved to Montreal and worked as a model at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Not being registered, Ayotte could not follow the lessons, but his work there as a model and as a janitor allowed him to listen in on classes. Without money, he also picked up the half-empty tubes left by careless students and used them to paint. The director Maillard told him later after he saw one of his paintings: "You are my best student."

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1917-2002

Bruce Heggtveit was born in Maidstone, Saskatchewan 1917. In 1938 at the age of 31 he became a Canadian National Ski Champion. Later Bruce began teaching painting in Ottawa, Ontario. He taught many of Canada's best landscape artists and many recognize him as being the reason for their success. In the 1970's he turned down lucrative skiing contracts to keep up with demand for his art. He passed away in 2002.

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David Moore is one of Australia's foremost painters. Moore was a recipient of the A.M.E Bale Residental Scholarship and the Norman Kaye award. He currently lives and teaches painting in Melbourne.

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Angel Gómez was born in Carbonero el Mayor (Segovia) Spain in 1942. 

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Gómez’s canvases were filled with familiar images of slate roofs over centuries-old stone buildings with stone-carved archways and wrought iron railings, narrow cobbled streetscapes in sun-dipped colors of gold, blue and purple. Rich, bold brush strokes created vibrant “paisajes” (landscapes) of Spanish countrysides.

However, since Gómez’s arrival in Canada in 1980, and as one vastly influenced by his surroundings, he has sought to reconcile his Spanish roots with the feeling of isolation he has experienced since moving to Fredericton, New Brunswick, and to describe these experiences in paint.

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In 1953 Cosgrove received a Canadian government fellowship to continue his studies in France where he fostered an early interest in the work of the French painters Braque and Rouault. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Cosgrove was involved in other pursuits besides his painting.

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1906 - 1971, NB, Canada

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b.1906-1971, Glace Bay, NS

Lawley graduated from Mount Allison University and then McGill University in Montreal. He pursued his interest in painting as a student of Agnes Lefort in Montreal and Aldro Hibbard of the American National Academy.

John's paintings are represented in numerous private and corporate collections throughout Canada.

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Beth Powning (Putnam, Connecticut, USA. 1949) lives in New Brunswick, Canada and is both an author and photographer. Her latest bestselling novel, A Measure of Light, was called by the Globe and Mail “shatteringly exquisite…extraordinary…visceral and intense.”

Powning majored in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She moved to an old farm near Sussex, New Brunswick in 1972, where she ran a pottery business with her husband, artist and photographer Peter Powning.

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1941-, Hamilton, ON (Lives in St. Andrews, NB)

Michener enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in 1964. After graduating he took on freelance work for various ad agencies and publications including T.V. Guide, The Financial Times and the Toronto Star. He has studied under numerous artists including some members of the group of seven. Michener has been the recipient of many awards throughout his career and continues to produce new work. He now owns and manages The Gables Restaurant (and Gallery) in St. Andrews, NB.

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1927–1999, Hamilton. Ontario, Canada.

McElcheran was a Canadian designer and sculptor and created the Royal Military College Club of Canada’s centennial gift, Truth Duty Valour, in 1976. The miniature statues are now known as ‘Brucie.’ McElcheran was commissioned to sculpt statues across Canada (mostly in Toronto) at universities,public and federal-owned buildings. His works are considered valueable collectors pieces.

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1884-1963. An English-born Canadian painter and printmaker. He is credited with popularizing the colour woodcut in the style of the Japanese, in Canada.

Phillips lived in Manitoba for 28 years, and died in British Columbia; his ashes were spread in the Rocky Mountains. 

Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

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English painter Thomas Malton "the younger" (1748-1804) is son of equally-famous Thomas Malton "the older". This highly acclaimed artist is famous for his watercolour and ink works, mostly of notable churches, landmarks and government buildings. His works can be found in several notable museums in London.

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“You’ve got this lovely canvas and there’s nothing like putting on this beautiful washy line and watching it spread, and the joy and excitement. …it’s like the joy of youth: and then you look at it and try to rationalize and bring it together.”

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John Wood Beckwith Maxwell was born in Fredericton where the fledgling UNB Art Centre loomed influentially in his introduction to art as a child and later creative development. Lucy Jarvis, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Fritz Brandtner and Madge Smith were among his early teachers and mentors. He also absorbed the presence and impact of Goodridge Roberts in his formative years and later that of Molly Lamb Bobak. He studied literature at the University of New Brunswick . A Canada Council grant in 1959 funded a trip to Paris, where he studied at the Academie Julienne and at La Grande Chaumière. He would then return to Fredericton.

Maxwell emphasized that being in or out of current fashion was irrelevant to his painterly concerns. What mattered, ultimately, was to make art that resonated with “truth” and thus have lasting value.

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Born in 1896. / Died in 1965

Nicholas Hornyansky was born in Budapest in 1896, studied art in Budapest at the Academy of Fine Arts, at the Munich plein-air school, in Amsterdam under Professor Mendlik, and also studied landscape painting in Belgium in the school of Franz Hens, then immigrated to Canada arriving 10 August 1929; he became a Canadian citizen in 1934. He was based in Toronto (55, Huntley Street, etc., etc.), but traveled extensively from coast to coast. He became a member of the Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers (elected 29 November 1929), the Ontario Society of Artists, the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, and Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy.

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(1886-1967)
Aliases: Lila Caroline Taylor

Canadian. Known for her marine and floral paintings.

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Born in Upper Melbourne, Quebec in 1871/d. there 1960.

Frederick Simpson Coburn was an illustrator, a painter and a print maker. In 1887–1888, Frederick Simpson Coburn RCA studied at the Conseil des arts et manufactures in Montreal and went to the Carl Hecker School of Art in New York City. The following year, he went to Germany, where he enrolled at the Berlin Academy. In 1892, he was to be found in Paris taking courses at the École des Beaux-Arts in Gérôme’s studio. In the years that followed, Coburn studied in London, in Belgium and travelled a great deal in Europe. While abroad, he not only mastered a variety of art techniques, he also became fluent in the French, German, Dutch and Flemish languages. His frequent trips back home enabled him to maintain a close connection with Quebec. It was in Antwerp that he met his future wife, the talented Belgian artist, Malvina Scheepers. Together, they established a studio-home in Coburn's village of Upper Melbourne and a pied-à-terre in Montreal.His drawings appeared regularly in American magazines, and he illustrated many works by American, English and Canadian authors for G.P. Putman Publishing of New York. In the 1910s, he quickly developed a reputation for his winter landscapes, and his level of success was unprecedented for a Canadian artist, at the time.

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RJ Hider was a British artist from the early 20th century who painted winter scenes and war propoganda posters, such as that used to sell war bonds.

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Levente Kovács (1922-1992) was a painter who lived in Canada between 1957 to 1985 and moved to France  to stay until his death in February 1992. Levente Kovacs has produced paintings of all kind in Hungary, Italy, Germany, Canada and France. These paintings represent portraits, landscapes or still lifes

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Born Narajow, Galacia in 1904. Died Montréal, QE, Canada in 2001.

 With an acute eye for character and a profound humanity, Montreal draughtsman and painter Louis Muhlstock created a portrait of the Depression in gentle, intimate drawings of marginalized people. His paintings of deserted streets and houses, done before and after the Second World War, are spare images that convey silence and memory.

Among Muhlstock's many national and international exhibitions was a solo show held in 1949 at the National Gallery of Canada, which travelled to several venues. Muhlstock was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists, Canadian Group of Painters, Contemporary Arts Society, Federation of Canadian Artists and Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. He held an honorary doctorate from Concordia University (1978) and was an Officer of the Order of Canada (1991) and Chevalier de l'ordre du Québec (1998).

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B. 1947 (Quebec)

Gaëtan Hovington is a talented sculptor from Tadousac, Quebec who studied under the Canadian Master carver, Jean-Julien Bourgault. Gaëëtan is known for his carved wooden scenes of early Canadian days and present day rural scenes as well as for his uniquely carved statuetteaééé of rural east coast genre.

Gaëtan only sculpts works to commisions and makes his living entirely from his artistry, and as such, his sculpted figures and scenes are rarely found for sale in any art galleries.

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Self-taught Eduardo Vincente Pérez (1909 - 1968), younger brother of painter Hispanic-American Esteban Vicente, was Spanish painter and lithographer. After the Spanish Civil War, he participated in the exhibitions and shows organized by the Brief Academy of Art Criticism . In 1932 Vincente was eventually being selected as one of the artists to be commissioned to make reproductions of the Black Paintings of Goya. There are reports of an unknown disagreements with the painters involved in the traveling museum, which led him to resign from and abandon the project.

Since 1957, the emergence of the group " El Paso", the informalismo, the "Arte Otro" and pop art, his painting fell out of fashion with the forgotten group. In the spring of 1968, In Madrid, when a piece of his work was to be shown at the Quixote Gallery, friends, anxious having not seen him for several days, found his body in a corner of his studio where he apparently had been dead for three days (causes unknown).

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Greek Canadian, born 1926.

Paul (Paleologos) Soulikias was born in Komotini, Greece in 1926, and raised in Volos. After the hardships of the German Occupation and the Greek Civil War, he spent time studying art in Athens and in Paris and ultimately settled in Montreal in 1959. In 2004, he was honoured by the Olympic City of Nea Ionia with an exhibition as part of the cultural events of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

Souliakias's art has always had popularity, though the geography would change. Souliakias' most recent exhibition was in 2008, though he has had 2 honourary exhibitions, the most recent in 2016.

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b.1923 Wawelowska, Poland - d.2012, Saint John, NB

Brunislaw Jacob Bobak studied in Ontario at Central Technical School and the Art Gallery of Toronto under Arthur Lismer. Joining the Canadian Army following high school, he was the youngest official war artist during WW2. Afterward, Bobak taught at the Vancouver School of Art. In 1960 he moved to New Brunswick and became artist in residence at the University of New Brunswick. He served as Director of the UNB’s Art Centre until 1986.

Order of Canada Member

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1925-, Poland (Lives in Montreal, QC)

Rita Briansky is an award-winning painter, printmaker, etcher and teacher, who studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts and New York’s Arts Student League.

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

She often uses landscape, portraiture and still lifes as a passionate response to the world around her, speaking fundamentally to the human condition.

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b.1900-1994, Edinburgh Scotland (Lived in Winnipeg and Ontario)

Charles Comfort was a Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator. He worked as a commercial artist for Brigdens Limited and taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design as well as the University of Toronto,

Comfort served on the Board of Directors and various committees at the Art Gallery of Toronto, and was Director of the National Gallery of Canada. He was also a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Canadian Group of Painters, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

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Among the earliest craftspeople in Canada to set up a studio and to make a living by selling their work were Erica and Kjeld Deichmann. Although many potters since have become full-fledged professionals, the Deichmanns were the pathfinders. Their careers span a critical period - from 1935 until Kjeld's death in 1963 - that represents a turning point in the history of crafts in Canada. It was the point at which the traditional crafts gave birth to the crafts as an artistic endeavour.

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Frederick Joseph Ross (1927-2014), born and died in Saint John, New Brunswick. In 1944, he began his art studies with Ted Campbell at the Saint John Vocational School, then in 1949, studying in Mexico, returning there once more a year later, where he met artist Diego Riviéra. In 1970, he resigned from his position at the Saint John Vocational School so that he could paint full-time.

 In 1993 the Beaverbrook Art Gallery retrospective, The Art of Fred Ross - A Timeless Humanism, secured his reputation nationally. In 2002 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.  

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Ernst Lorenzen (1911-1990, born in Denmark).

Alma Lorenzen (1916-1998, born in Cocagne, NB).

Ernst and Alma Lorenzen started making pottery as a hobby in the mid-1940s when they lived in Dieppe, New Brunswick, but soon produced it on a commercial basis, and relied on this craft for their livelihood by the time they were established in Lantz, Nova Scotia, in 1950. Initially, the Lorenzens relied on commercial sources of clay and glaze ingredients when they began making pottery in the 1940s. With time the Lorenzens increasingly made use of local materials to make their pottery. The Lorenzens moved back and forth from NB and NS.

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Born 1941, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Chinese name: 曹惠文

now living in Pleasantville, Nova Scotia, Raymond Chow studied art at UBC and received his Bachelor of Ed. and his degree in Piano Performance. At age 12 he was winning art awards, at age 30 he owned three art galleries, twelve antique automobiles and three grand pianos as well as started his 16mm documentary films.

Using his Chinese brushes, acrylics and canvas, he painted his daughter in every location that he has traveled across Canada, California, Shanghai, England, Holland and France. Lisa was a regular subject of his art.

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b. Victoria Island, BC, 1946. 

Elsie was born on Victoria Island, and has been drawing since the early 1960s. Her father, Victor Ekootak, was an artist and inspired her to draw through his drawings, as well as his stories. Elsie’s son, Stanley (Elongnak) Klengenberg is a graphic artist and sculptor in Holman.

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b. Glasgow, Scotland, 1938. Currently living in Fort Langley, BC.

Alan Wylie is a remarkably versatile artist using various mediums and paints on a variety of subjects such as landscapes, figures and still life. He is well known for his grand murals in public and private institutions across North America and Europe.

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James A. Elliott is well known for his watercolors of the coast of his home state of Maine.

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1940-2007

Ken Danby was one of Canada’s foremost artists; a painter and printmaker of international renown best known for his realist style.

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1917-2005, Montreal, QC

Jacques studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in 1937 and the Contemporary Art Society of Montreal in 1942. He taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal, the University of British Columbia and Mount Allison University. Among his students were Claude Tousignant and Graham Coughtry.

His work is in many public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Carleton University Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Museum London among others.

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts member.

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Seeking information. Artist activity estimated between late-19th century to, at most recent, early-20th century. Possibly older.

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Chris Lloyd graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999. Between 2001-2003 he was director of the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax, NS. Since 2001 he has been writing (almost) daily email to the Prime Minister of Canada while trying to become the official Prime Minister portrait painter. In 2015 he ran as an Independent candidate in the 42nd General Election but lost badly to Justin Trudeau. He still writes the Prime Minister, almost daily. 

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1936-, Middleton, NS

Thomas DeVany Forrestall, C.M., O.N.S., B.F.A. LL.D., RCA attended Saturday morning art classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax in the 1940s. In 1954, he was awarded a scholarship to the Fine Arts department at Mount Allison University, where he studied with Lawren P. Harris and Alex Colville.

He graduated in 1958 and received one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study which provided him with the opportunity to travel throughout Europe. Upon his return he became assistant curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has been a freelance artist since 1960.

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1923-2005

Caiserman-Roth was a Canadian artist born in Montréal, Québec. She was a founder of the Montreal Artist School and has work in the National Gallery of Canada. Caiserman Roth was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) and the first artist to receive the Governor General Award.

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Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808 – 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.

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Walter Wenzel Pranke, (1925- )

Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Pranke studied at the Dresden Art Academy; with Scott in Utah (1945); and in Hanover and Dusseldorf, Germany (1947). He came to Montreal, Quebec in 1955, before settling in Ottawa, Ontario in 1981. Working in oil and ink, he paints Old Montreal and Old Quebec City as well as the Laurentian landscape especially in winter.
 
Biography courtesy of The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume III: M-R

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1865-1944

Born in Lanvéoc, Finistère, France in 1865, Georges Chavignaud watched Corot paint as a boy and later came under the influence of this artist. He arrived in Toronto in 1884 and became an art director for a Canadian publishing firm. He studied at the Académie royale des beaux-arts in Brussels in 1903, studied black and white in Paris and painting in Antwerp in 1904.

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Henri Leopold Masson (OSA, CGP, GSPWC) was born in Spy, Belgium in 1907. He came to Canada with his family in 1921, settling in Ottawa working as a silver engraver for several years. He painted during the evenings and weekends.

Largely self-taught, Masson combined his narrative abilities with a fluid Group of Seven style. He lived in Ottawa from 1921 and began exhibiting nationally in 1938 and internationally in 1946. His themes reflect his belief in the unity of nature and art.

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Saint John

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b. 1941

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Henri D’anty was born on September 8th, 1910, in Bellevile(Paris), France. A painter of the "School of Paris," Henri D'Anty studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and at the Academie Julian. Known for still lifes and landscapes, his work can be found in the collection of the Musee D'Orsay.

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1946-, Canada (Lives in New Zealand)

Born in Canada in 1946, Wyatt studied painting at the Alberta College of Art and Hornsey College of Art. He has done collaborative research with Dr. Eric Brodie, of Glasgow Caledonian University, in drawing and perception.

His interest is in the natural conveyance of meaning in the pictorial arts as well as the interrelationship between the biological and the socially-constructed aspects of aesthetic cognition that effect both artist and spectator.

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1937-2009, Cincinnati, OH (Lived in Halifax, NS)

Gerald Ferguson was a highly influential conceptual artist who taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for over forty years. There he mentored generations of developing artists including our own Gerard Collins.

Ferguson was also a perceptive collector. He amassed a significant and widely varied collection of folk art and the art of Nova Scotian painters from the first half of the twentieth century.

Molson Prize Recipient

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1921-1978, Toronto, ON

Just as our local artist Gerard Collins, Alexander S. Millar studied at the St. Martin's School of Fine Art, in London. He has received numerous awards and scholarships including the Lt. Governor General’s Medal, the Terry Art Institute International Award, a Department of Veterans Affairs scholarship to study in Mexico and a scholarship to study at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel De Allende.

Millar taught at the Ontario College of Art, Queens University, in Kingston, The Doon School of Fine Art and the Mary and Roman Schneider School of Fine Art.

Ontario Society of Artists and Canadian Group of Painters Member.

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Remi Clark was born in Quebec City in 1944. He first studied applied sciences at the Institute of Technology and then painted for several years before exhibiting.

Strongly inspired by our Quebec landscapes, he mainly paints scenes representing the family and the daily life. His work is full of luminosity and the happiness that emanates from it.

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Born in 1957, Antoine Bittar has been passionate with art since 1981 when he began full-time painting. His main interest lies in the challenge of capturing and creating atmospheric impressions. In accordance with his aesthetic taste, the artist feels a true contentment with the enduring qualities of simplified-realism or impressionist styles adapted to present day subject matter.

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Born in Quebec City, Prevost studied town planning at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts Montreal (1949), and is self-taught in painting. He is influenced by Jean Paul Lemieux, and Benoit East. Working in oil and watercolour, his early detailed paintings are characterized by tiny brushstrokes. He is however, best known for his somewhat surreal, simplified, faceless conical figures in winter settings. He established and administered the historic village of Jacques de Chambly (1960-1971). He turned to painting full-time in 1971 and moved to Norton, New Brunswick in 1984. His silkscreen illustrations were published in "Mon Oncle Antoine" by Claude Jutra and "Septuor Maritime" by Gilles Vigneault

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