Nature Painting Biography
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A naturalized Canadian artist, born in the USA in 1930, trained and free-lanced commercially in New York until moving to Ottawa Canada in 1963. Focused predominately on animals and nature subjects which were reproduced and distributed by Pepper House Fine Arts Ltd. Solo exhibitions in Ottawa, Toronto, New York and Salt Spring Island. Paintings shown in gallery collections in Victoria, Vancouver, Penticton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Ottawa, Halifax and Wolfville. Elected to Society of Animal Artists in 1973, exhibiting annually in the SAA group shows in numerous USA cities. Relocated to British Columbia after teaching several seasons at the Okanagan Summer School of the Arts, settling on Salt Spring Island BC in 1985.
Support for Conservation, The proceeds from countless originals, prints, reproductions, and royalties have assisted a wide range of animal and conservation organizations over the years, including The Owl Foundation, The World Wildlife Fund Canada, WWF USA, The Western Canada Wilderness Committee, The Lanark SPCA, The Ontario Wolf League, The International Fund for Animal Welfare, Friends of Animals, Long Island Ocelot Club, Burnaby Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. in Burnaby, and The Island Wildlife Natural Care Centre on Salt Spring Island.
His father was a wealthy corn merchant, owner ofFlatford Mill in East Bergholt and, later, Dedham Mill in Essex. Golding Constable owned a small ship, The Telegraph, which he moored at Mistley on the Stour estuary, and used to transport corn to London. He was a cousin of the London tea merchant, Abram Newman. Although Constable was his parents' second son, his older brother was intellectual disabled and John was expected to succeed his father in the business. After a brief period at a boarding school in Lavenham, he was enrolled in a day school in Dedham. Constable worked in the corn business after leaving school, but his younger brother Abram eventually took over the running of the mills.
In his youth, Constable embarked on amateur sketching trips in the surrounding Suffolk and Essex countryside, which was to become the subject of a large proportion of his art. These scenes, in his own words, "made me a painter, and I am grateful"; "the sound of water escaping from mill dams etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things." He was introduced to George Beaumont, a collector, who showed him his prized Hagar and the Angel by Claude Lorrain, which inspired Constable. Later, while visiting relatives in Middlesex, he was introduced to the professional artist John Thomas Smith, who advised him on painting but also urged him to remain in his father's business rather than take up art professionally.
In 1799, Constable persuaded his father to let him pursue a career in art, and Golding granted him a small allowance. Entering the Royal Academy Schools as a probationer, he attended life classes and anatomical dissections, and studied and copied old masters. Among works that particularly inspired him during this period were paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, Claude Lorrain, Peter Paul Rubens,Annibale Carracci and Jacob van Ruisdael. He also read widely among poetry and sermons, and later proved a notably articulate artist. By 1803, he was exhibiting paintings at the Royal Academy.
In 1802 he refused the position of drawing master at Great Marlow Military College, a move whichBenjamin West (then master of the RA) counselled would mean the end of his career. In that year, Constable wrote a letter to John Dunthorne in which he spelled out his determination to become a professional landscape painter:Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
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Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Nature Painting Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
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