Born in England in 1921, came to Canada in 1954 and has exhibited his
abstract paintings in Canada, the United States and Britian for over 40 years,
winning many of the nation’s coveted painting prizes: The Baxter Award,
3 time winner of the honour Award for water colour, 3 Hadassah prizes
and is included in major public, corporate and private collections:
The Royal Collection of Drawings and Water Colours, Windsor Castle, U.K.,
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, London Art Gallery, Ontario,
Gdansk National Gallery, Poland, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario,
Saskatchewan Art Gallery and a mural in the Windsor Public Library.

A contemporary of Painter’s Eleven, his work was
first “noted for its quiet strength” by Pearl McCarthy of The Globe and Mail
and since then art critic and author Paul Duval saw him
“as a significant figure in contemporary Canadian painting.”

He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts,
The Ontario Society of Artists and a past president of the
Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.

“My work for The Island of Demons provided an exciting challenge
to realize the author’s concept of three unreal and imagined protagonists:
Doubt, Discord and Regret as a visual abstract achievement.
My many thoughts and revisits to the story of the legend prompted me to suggest
that each cover of the book be a different original painting:
an opportunity to try to visually resolve the story’s abstract location
and its inhabitants . . . 100 times.
I hope my attempts will prove to be as enjoyable and rewarding
for the reader as it was for me to create.

His work can be seen at the
Moore Gallery, 80 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario and on line at
www.mooregallery.com and www.thielsengalleries.com.

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