Artist Jonathan Forrest
Title Horn
Media acrylic on canvas
Dated
2009
Size 48 x 66 in. / 121.9 x 167.6 cm.
Frame Size 50.25 x 68.5 x 2 in.
Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
Notes
signed, titled and dated verso; framed
Provenance
Newzones Gallery, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Jonathan Forrest ~ [b.1962] Canadian
see artist's website at www.jonathanforrest.com;
Jonathan Forrest is an abstract painter who divides his studio time between Vancouver Island and small town Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and immigrated with his family to Canada in 1977.
Forrest studied at the University of Saskatchewan receiving his BFA in 1983 and his MFA in 1991. Jonathan has participated in several artists’ workshops including The Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop (1985, 1988, 1991, 2001, 2003 and 2005), The Saskatchewan Invitational artists’ workshop, Emma Lake (2000), and Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, NY (2002).
His work has been shown in Western Canada in museums including the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, The Edmonton Art Gallery and The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina. In 2021, the Art Gallery of Swift Current organized a survey exhibition, which followed the trajectory of Jonathan Forrest’s painting practice from 2002 to 2019.
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website