by Gallery_Admin | Mar 11, 2020
Thomas Keith Roberts Artist Bio: Thomas Keith Roberts, RCA, OSA (1909-1998) Born in 1909, Tom Roberts was the grandson of Samuel Roberts, founder of Roberts Gallery (1842). Having spent much time in the gallery during his youth, Tom resolved at an early age to become...
by Gallery_Admin | Mar 11, 2020
Jean-Paul Riopelle Artist Bio: Jean-Paul Riopelle, RCA (1923-2002) Jean-Paul Riopelle was born in Montreal and started his education as an engineer at the Ecole Polytechnique. Sooner after, he turned to fine art and enrolled at the l’Ecole du Meuble, where he studied...
by Gallery_Admin | Mar 11, 2020
Ceri Richards Artist Bio: Ceri Richards (1903-1971) Ceri Richards is a Welsh painter and printmaker, born in Dunvant, near Swansea, Wales, in 1903. He studied at Swansea School of Art, before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. In 1962 he was...
by Gallery_Admin | Mar 11, 2020
Kelsey Raymond Artist Bio: Kelsey Raymond (1926-2001) Kelsey Raymond was interested in art as a child and attended Acadia University after graduation from Horton Academy in Wolfville. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and following that...
by Gallery_Admin | Mar 11, 2020
Joseph (Joe) Purcell Artist Bio: Joseph Douglas Purcell (1927-2017) Born and lived in Halifax, N.S., Joseph Purcell studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art where he studied for three years on scholarships. After he left the college he began a series of paintings...
