December 2010 Featured Artist: Bob Craig

Bob CRAIG
103 - 1510 Nelson Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
V6G 1M1
www.bobcraigcollage.ca

BIOGRAPHY

Bob was born in Medicine Hat, Canada, the youngest member of a family of ten. As a child he explored the river valley, fished, and hunted on the prairie. His definition of tranquility: no sign of human occupation as far as the eye can see in any direction. Best illustrator of his childhood outdoors: American painter, C.M. Russell.

Bob taught art for several years, taking a one-year sabbatical to write and work as a restorer at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. He left teaching to open his own pottery studio.

Bob adopted collage as a medium in the 1990ís when he began experimenting with illustration using postage stamps for color, then adding simulated textures and brighter hues from magazine pages. Techniques of camouflage and spatial illusion learned in museum conservation work some 30 years earlier have found their way into his collage pieces. His perception is also influenced by the philosophy and spirituality of First Nations people, whose culture he shared while living in Canada's North.

Bobís work has appeared in juried exhibits and galleries in Canada, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Crete, the United States (New York), New Zealand and Switzerland where his exhibition piece. After Treaty Seven, took first prize in the free subject media category at SEETAL 2006. Bob's work was juried into the SEETAL 2007 exhibition. He will be exhibiting at the Florence Biennale for the second time in December 2007.

Phone: 604 899-0998 Cell: 604 812-2595
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