This fall be inspired by Bruce St. Clair as Gallery ArtPlus hosts a 2 day oil and acrylic painting class with master painter Bruce St. Clair. Classes are Saturday September 25 th and Saturday October 2nd 11am-5pm and cost for both days is $80 held right here at Gallery ArtPlus. Be sure to sign up today and learn to "unlock the mystery of realism" For more information call 613 961 1977 x 231 or email info@galleryartplus.com
"Three Chairs" Bruce St. Clair
"Bob's Boat" by Bruce St. Clair
"Paradise Past" by Bruce St. Clair, oil
Born in, and raised just outside Galt (now Cambridge) Ontario, Bruce St. Clair has the rural and natural environment in his bones, as even a casual overview of his more than forty years of painting will confirm. After studying at OCA in the mid - sixties, he inaugurated his artistic career with a painting/ canoe trip on the Magnetawan River in Northern Ontario (1967) and in 1969 moved to Scotland in 1999, returning the following year, which stirred his Scottish roots into a theme of artistic expression.
1969 was also the year he held his first solo exhibition at the newly - formed Aggregation Gallery in Toronto (since renamed Wynick - Tuck Gallery). He was also at various times represented by Beckett Gallery in Hamilton, Nancy Poole's Studio in Toronto and Joan Ferneyhough Gallery in North Bay, and has exhibited in many public galleries across Canada, with reviews in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, Artmagazine, London Free Press, Calgary Herald, Art Canada and many others. He joined Gallery ArtPlus in Belleville, after moving to the area in 2008.
St. Clair was Artist - in - Residence at the MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, University of Guelph, in 1981, and Canadore College in 1987, where he had begun teaching drawing and painting courses, both in Artsperience, its summer art program, and throughout the year. In 1988, he organised a life - drawing group for local artists, and in 1989 began teaching at Haliburton School of Fine Arts.
In 1983, St. Clair won the Gold Medal in painting/ realism in the Grollo d' Oro International Competition in Italy, for his painting Three Chairs. His work is represented in numerous private, public and corporate collections, both at home and abroad.
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