One more by Alex Coville

Alex Covile is 90

David Alexander Colville, PC, CC, ONS (born August 24, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian painter.


Colville's family moved from Toronto to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938–1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Colville married Rhoda Wright that year and enlisted in the Canadian Army under the War Artist Program. During his four-year deployment to the European Theatre, he worked as one of Canada's most famous war artists, famously painting troops landing at Juno Beach on D-Day.

Colville returned to New Brunswick after the war and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University where he taught from 1946 - 1963. Colville left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio in his home on York Street; this building is now named Colville House.

In 1973, he moved his family to his wife's hometown of Wolfville, Nova Scotia where they lived in the house that her father had built and in which she was born. The Colvilles have three sons and a daughter along with eight grandchildren

Acting Out Art

I discovered the work of this young Canadian artist online today at her blog: ActingOutArt.blogspot.com
Acting out Art. TANYA GWEN MINNICK, KINGSTON, CANADA

This one is a mandella made up of trilliums, Ontario's Provincial flower. I hope to post others in the future.

Canadian Artist Bruce McCall

McCall was born in Toronto but has lived in New York City for many years doing art and cartooning for many of the major magazines like the New Yorker. This short film was made in cooperation with the National Film Board of Canada.