Notes: While in Southhampton Ontario painting for an upcoming show of landscapes, Mr. Ariss began integrating human figures into the shoreline images mirroring the colours and shapes of the rocks into the figures.

Mr. Ariss was instrumental in bringing nude models to Beal Art for life drawing. BealArt was part of a publicly funded high school and in the 1950s and 60s he put his job on the line on more than one occasion to assert the importance of live models.  A perk of teaching figure drawing was his access to the model sessions for his own artist work.

Mr. Ariss was instrumental in bringing nude models to Beal Art for figure drawing. 

The print is one part of a set of four,

Mr Bikkers worked collaboratively with Karel Appel creating several serigraph editions. The influence of Mr Appel's wild and colourful work can be felt in these prints.

The print is one part of a set of four,

Mr Bikkers worked collaboratively with Karel Appel creating several serigraph editions. The influence of Mr Appel's wild and colourful work can be felt in these prints.

The print is one part of a set of four,

Mr Bikkers worked collaboratively with Karel Appel creating several serigraph editions. The influence of Mr Appel's wild and colourful work can be felt in these prints.

Printed at Maison Moll (Gillbert Moll Studios)

Draper, Wayne

Wayne Draper studied at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in the 1980's. He spent 10 years living in a remote cabin on Vancouver Island developing his painting style. His abstract work was heavily influenced by the colours of the forest around him. He moved to London ON in the early 1990's where his work was sold through The White Gallery until he moved back out west to Victoria in 1997, where he continues to paint and sell his work.

Klaas Willem Verboom (1948 - 1988) was a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was featured at Thielsen Gallery. 

Gilbert Moll, Canadian, 1948-2003, collections of this work include Museum London, McIntosh Art Gallery, The Queen's Silver Jubilee Art Collection and the Art Gallery of Hamilton

Artists Statement

My work as a painter has focused mostly on the landscape genre.  In this regard the creative process is both traditional and modern in that I make studies on site.  The studies I can then use to make the studio paintings.  I actually view this process as a means towards architecture, which I would define as "the art of building or making", where one uses logic, both intuitive and discursive, to perceive the materials or even in nature and to then imagine this so as to draw it onto a flat surface.

Dresden Academy of Arts (basic training in mural painting), Germany, 1953-1954; H.B. Beal Secondary School (printmaking), London. Ontario, 1970

Printed at Maison Moll (Gillbert Moll Studios)