Reference: Rhys Douglas Farrell is an artist living and working in Calgary, Alberta. In 2016, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Alberta College of Art + Design (now Alberta University of the Arts). Farrell is the recipient of a painting scholarship from AUArts where he was also the Representative for the Painting Department and the Director of the Student Gallery, Quoin Gallery. He was signed on with the Herringer Kiss Gallery while still a student and his first solo show was named by Canadian Art Magazine as a 'Must See'.

Farrell was then featured in a seven-page spread in Branded Magazine in the summer of 2016. Farrell has completed a number of public art projects with the Telus Spark Science Center, Beltline Urban Mural Project (BUMP), the City of Calgary and a number of private commissions. His work has been aggressively collected by private and corporate collections alike and he recently completed three international residencies with Pinea & Linea De Costa A.I.R program in Spain, Graniti Murales in Sicily and the TARP Program in Kuala Lumpur with Taksu Gallery. Farrell is also the recipient of the 2019 Alumni Horizon Award from AUArts.

Farrell’s paintings create optical images and illusions through the use of colour and shape. His work pays particular attention to colour theory and how line and shape affect visual perception and optical illusion. A hard-edge painter, Rhys Douglas Farrell pairs elements of graffiti and street painting with the genre of minimal op-art.

see artist's website at rhysdouglasfarrell.com; represented by Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary

Reference: nee Henricks; listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: see Gordon Ferguson: Sense Your Place, by Leslie Dawn, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1988; 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

Reference: To read an article in the Calgary Journal, click here. Flodberg exhibited his Matters of Denial series at the Art Gallery of Calgary in 2008.
For more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.chrisflodberg.com

see Chris Flodberg: Paintings published by Douglas and McIntyre/Masters Gallery, 2016;

biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 1, pg. 116, Westbridge Publishing, 1999;

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

Reference: 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

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Reference: listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: see N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, by C.Hill, pg.3; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.126; E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.123; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2, pg.242 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.1, Westbridge Pub., 2000; included in From Ocean to Ocean: Nineteenth Century Water Colour Painting in Canada, by J.Adamson, pg.5, A.G.O., 1978; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, by E.Benezit, Tome 4, pg.125; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.140 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.137

Reference: for biographical detail and more examples of work see artist's website www.robertgenn.com

see
Robert Genn: In Praise of Painting, by R.Genn, Merritt Publishing, 1981;
Love Letters to Art, by Robert Genn, Studio Beckett Publications, 2008;
Robert Genn The Twice-Weekly Letters, by Robert Genn, Studio Beckett Publications, 2010

Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.18, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2, addendum;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.8, Westbridge Pub., 2000;
Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 51, pg. 337, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: Colin Gibson was born in Belfast in 1948. He took out painting after working for the Belfast Telegraph as graphic designer and focused his art on depicting landscapes in a dynamic realist style, from the urban turmoil of New York to the Italian countryside or Dublin’s historical buildings and monuments. His first solo exhibition was held at the Nelson Bell Gallery in 1968.

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Reference: Gissing was born in Worcester, England in 1895. Due to his father’s career as a writer, the family consistently moved around England and Scotland. Gissing’s only formal art training was art lessons at George Watson’s College for Boys in Edinburgh. In 1913, at the age of eighteen, Gissing moved to Alberta to work as a ranch hand. Searching for a traditional cowboy lifestyle that he didn’t find in Calgary, he rode a horse down into the desert of Nevada. He would commonly sketch action scenes and live figures for those he met while traveling. By 1923, he had returned to Alberta and decided to try painting for a living. Without any formal training he learned and continually improved by observing the nature around him, taking notes, and reading books on technical skills. His earliest works were watercolours and pastels, but by the 1930s he was producing mostly oil paintings. His most popular subjects were of the Albertan foothills and the mountain landscape. A devastating fire in 1944 resulted in the loss of fifty of his paintings, his model trains, and his book collection. While the loss of his home was very difficult for Gissing, the demand for his paintings only grew. In Calgary in the 1950’s he was outselling painters like A.Y. Jackson and Maxwell Bates. In 1957, Gissing met Ester Glockzin, a widowed schoolteacher. This close relationship improved his spirits and he began painting with a ‘renewed zest and buoyancy of spirit’. Gissing passed away in 1967 and is widely remembered as Alberta’s best known landscape painter.

for biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.rolandgissing.com

see Roland Gissing, The People's Painter, by M.Foran, UofC Press, 1988

biography and other examples in Dict. Of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.278 Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.12, Westbridge Pub., 2000; The Alberta Society of Artists: Sixty Years, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1992 Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955 Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 55, pg. 369, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009

exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.149 M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.145

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: 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

Reference: see Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.18, Westbridge Pub., 2000; important British ornithologist writing numerous books on a variety of birds including those from the Himalaya Mountains, Europe and Australia; he worked closely with Charles Darwin to publish Part 3 of Zoology of H.M.S. Beagle between 1938 and 1842

Reference: biography and other examples in Art in Victoria 1960/1986, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V.; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.19, Westbridge Pub., 2000

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: included on the Getty Union List of Artist Names Online, by the Getty Research Trust website

Reference: Niece of Alexander Young Jackson and listed on the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see Trail North: A Journey in Words and Pictures, by R.Guest, Lone Pine Publishing, 1995; biography and another example in Artists of Alberta, by S.Baker, pg.66, University of Alberta Press; Alberta Realists, by N.Townshend, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1974; 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

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: represented by Newzones Gallery, Calgary; included in the University of Calgary Millenium Portfolio, 1999 as alumnus

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see Maurice Hall Haycock 1900-1988, by Kathy Haycock, private printing; biography in Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.2, by C.MacDonald, pg.396; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg. 42, Westbridge Pub., 2001; 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

Reference: Born and raised in Regina, Haynes graduated from Alberta College of Art in 1958. He worked for the Department of Public Works as art advisor for the Government of Alberta. Haynes became a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta in 1970 and stayed until 1995. He received the Alberta Centennial Medal for the arts in 2006.
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website att www.doughaynesfineart.com

see
Cubism Revisited: The Paintings of Douglas Haynes, by R. Bingham, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1985;
Douglas Haynes 25 Years, by L.Dawn, E.A.G., 2000

biography and another examples in
1975-76 The Canadian Canvas, by Time Canada Ltd., 1975;
Artists of Alberta, by S.Baker, pg.1, University of Alberta Press;
Contemporary '88 Calgary, by M.Laviolette, pg.38, Olympic Arts Festival;
The Heritage of Jack Bush, a Tribute, by K.Carpenter, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1971;
Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.110, Fifth House Pub., 1994

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

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Reference: biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.45, Westbridge Pub., 2000; website at www.brentheighton.com; represented by numerous galleries including Avenida Gallery and Heritage Gallery, Calgary

Reference: Michel-Henry is acknowledged as an important painter in French contemporary art. From 1952 his work has periodically been singled out for France's highest prizes and awards. The French Government, the City of Paris, the Museum of Valence, Bogota and the Museum of Alencon are among the distinguished institutions who have acquired his work for their permanent collections.

Born in Langres in 1928 the aspiring artist attended the Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He later studied with Narbonne, Georg, Chapelain-Midy and Legueult. In 1957 he became a member of the House of Descrates in Amsterdam and the following year was named member of the Casa Velasquez in Madrid, honors which are exceptional for a young painter.

Michel-Henry blends delicate tones and strong and fascinating accents into his compositions of flower still life, landscapes and marines. An avid interest in nature is the predominant quality of his luminous works.

As a French artist whose works are known internationally, Michel-Henry over a period of twenty eight years has earned the status of a goodwill ambassador in a universal world of cultural exchanges. For his dedication and unselfish contributions to art and artists from all lands he was honored by his country by being awarded the prestigious - la Croix de Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur - on January 1, 1981 by the French Minister of Culture Mr. Jean Philippe Lecat.

represented by Lakeshore Fine Art Inc., Ontario; included on the Getty Union List of Artist Names Online, by the Getty Research Trust website; listed on artprice.com

Reference: Well-known for his expansive colour-drenched paintings, Patrick Heron (1920-1999) was a luminary of post-war British art. With a grounding in figurative painting, his early works show a keen awareness of light, colour, and tone which developed over the course of his career into a practise centred entirely on these qualities within an abstract realm. Heron’s works are concerned primarily with the act and appearance of painting as referents unto themselves, without representational intent. As such, his approach to abstraction was often purely motivated by the interactions between different tonalities and their respective properties, arguing that colour and shape were inseparable from one another.

Heron was born in Leeds in 1920 but in 1925 moved with his family to West Cornwall, where he would latterly spend most of his adult years. In 1929 the family moved again, to Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, where Heron’s father Tom started Cresta Silks, a company that commissioned artists to design textiles. During the 1930s and 40s, Heron gained some early artistic success designing textiles for the company. Heron studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1937-39 and, following his studies, worked as an assistant to British ceramicist Bernard Leach in St Ives (1944-45). While working in Leach’s studio, he became friendly with many of the major St Ives artists of the period, including Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and Naum Gabo.

Heron’s early paintings gained critical and commercial praise for their rigorous approach, and his first solo exhibition was held at the Redfern Gallery, London in 1947. The influence of the French masters, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque can be felt in these abstract-figurative works, particularly in the angular lines and overlapping forms. By the mid-1950s, however, Heron had moved away from figuration to focus more completely on abstraction, which coincided with his return to Cornwall. The Taschiste-like mark making in these works situated Heron alongside some of the most avant-garde painters active in post-war Europe. By the time Heron had his first US solo show at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York in 1960, his paintings were filled in with increasingly independent patches of flat, bright colour, a language that he would continue to explore throughout his career. He would go on to show new works consistently at commercial galleries until the end of his life.

Alongside his own artistic practice, Heron was also a prominent and prolific writer whose texts engaged with the zeitgeist of Modern painting throughout the mid-twentieth century. He was appointed the art critic for The New Statesman between 1947 and 1950 before acting as the London correspondent for the US magazine Arts Digest, New York (later named Arts (N.Y.)) during the late 1950s. Throughout his career he published important scholarship on artists that he admired, notably Ivon Hitchens (1955) and Braque (1956), as well as producing research and theory which underpinned some of his own practice, as seen in The Changing Forms of Art (1955) and The Shape of Colour (1973).

For his painting Heron won the Grand Prize at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition in 1959 and the silver medal at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1965. From 1980-87, he was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London, which held a major retrospective of his work in 1998. Twenty years later in 2018, Tate St Ives also held a survey show of his work which thereafter travelled to Turner Contemporary, Margate in 2019. Other significant retrospective exhibitions include at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1972) and the Barbican Art Gallery, London (1985).

Heron was awarded a C.B.E. in 1977 and has received Honorary Doctorates from Exeter University (1982), the University of Kent at Canterbury (1986), and the Royal College of Art (1987) amongst others. - biography from Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert who represents the estate of Patrick Heron

for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at hh-h.com

Reference: Aron Hill was born in 1977 in Calgary, Alberta. In 2000, Hill earned a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the Alberta College of Art and Design (now Alberta University of the Arts) and completed an MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2006. His work evolved into installation based projects using traditional drawing and painting methods alongside formal sculptural elements, large format photography and text based work.

Hill as an artist, an educator, and a writer added being a foster parent to their biography when their family fostered a baby girl. This life-changing event has become woven into Hill’s creative practice through themes of domestic life, labour, care, community and critical analysis of historical colonialism to create compelling visual narratives. Using bright, flat colour on prepared raw canvas, Hill creates crisp, enigmatic compositions that suggest celestial forms, rocks, flowers, vessels and imagined terrain. Although highly distilled, his paintings remain connected to the visible world and often begin from a figurative point of view.

Hill lives and works in Calgary and has exhibited across Canada and internationally. Their work is held in private and corporate collections, including RBC, Suncor, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, and Alberta University of the Arts.

for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at aronhill.com

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at royhinz.com

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at buckinghamfineart.com

Reference: D. Hoffos was born in Montreal and grew up in a string of cities in Ontario, Alberta, and Australia. Hoffos entered the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge in 1990 where they received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994. Since 1992, Hoffos has maintained an active practice - with over 40 solo exhibitions, including a survey at the National Gallery of Canada. In 2009 their 6-year installation series, Scenes from the House Dream debuted at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, before a national tour which included the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. In 2014, Hoffos completed permanent public sculpture projects in Grande Prairie and Lethbridge. Hoffos has led international residencies, twice at the Banff Centre. They have received awards including the Images Grand Prize, 2007, and the inaugural Sobey Art Award (2nd place), 2002.

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

Reference: artist's web site at www.markholliday.com; 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; respresented by Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

Reference: see artist's website at http://www.stefanhorik.com/

Reference: biography and other examples in
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.61, Westbridge Pub., 2000;
Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.23

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]