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Leon Belsky 4
LEON BELSkY BALLET TUTU #4 OIL ON CANvAS,16.5" x 16.5"
LEON BELSkY SPINNING CALLA LILIES #2 OIL ON CANvAS, 24" x 24"
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RON BOLT
Ron Bolt is one of the leading landscape painters in Canada. Combining a conceptual approach with superior technical ability, Bolt's work transforms the Canadian landscape into an other-worldly plain. In his early years, the artist was profoundly influenced by abstraction and adopted a minimal approach to his subject matter. Gradually with a return to oil, a change occurred in his work which led to complex compositions of rich colour and expressive brushwork. Bolt has continued the powerful tradition of landscape painting in Canada with a focus on the coastal and river waterways that fascinate him, a wilderness that he describes as "sacred".
Ron Bolt was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1938. A member of the Arts and Letters Club and former President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA), Bolt’s career has spanned over fifty years and includes more than 70 solo exhibitions from coast to coast. He was awarded the Canada 125 Medal in 1992, the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2002, the RCA’s Centennial Medallion in 2005 and in 2012, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. Ron Bolt has been described as a quintessential "Northern Romantic" painter.
