Raffle Draw Prize
Raffle Tickets are $20 each/ 6 for $100 – only 300 tickets
Value: $4,000
Raffle Tickets Available at:
Unity Project – (519) 433-8700 ext 2
Framing & Art Centre – 188 Kent St
Westland Gallery – 156 Wortley Rd
Draw at UPwithART event – 8:00pm
you do not need to be present to win!
Lottery License: M751026
Bio:
Ron Bolt (RCA) was born in Toronto in 1938. His career spans close to fifty years. As a painter, he has held over seventy one solo exhibitions in Public and Commercial galleries in Canada and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, England, Japan and China. Commissions include two Government murals, three books and numerous corporate and private installations. His paintings, prints and limited edition books are in the collections of museums, public galleries and major libraries in Canada and abroad. Bolt has continued the powerful tradition of landscape painting in Canada although with a slight shift in focus. For Bolt, it is the coastal and river waterways that fascinate him – a wilderness that he describes as “sacred”. He sees the wild places as a living record, a perceptible memory of our cultural heritage and a defining characteristic of our nation. In the early years, the artist was profoundly influenced by abstraction and adopted a minimal approach to his subject matter. Gradually, with a return to oil, a subtle change occurred leading to very complex compositions, richer colour and expressive brush work. Two remote residencies in Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland and in the Mohave Desert helped to promote this change. In 2003, a Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society sponsored an expedition down the Snake River in the Yukon. For fourteen days, this arduous and dangerous voyage challenged the artist physically, emotionally and intellectually. The ultimate effect of this experience on his painting has been to reinforce Bolt as a “northerner” and a “romantic” following but reinventing a Canadian tradition.
Description/ Statement:
“We were fortunate to meet Ron on a number of occasions at A.K. Collings Gallery, in Port Hope, Ontario. At the time Ron was uncharacteristically creating smaller scale paintings, similar in size to “Waterscape”. This painting was one of Ron’s first on Washi, handmade Japanese paper. The first was “Wintergrasses”, ink on paper, that he created on commission for the A.K. Collings Gallery as part of the World Wide Washi Summit. In Waterscape, he painted both sides of the translucent paper and the effect is delicate and gorgeous.”
From the Collection of Anonymous