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Keith Chisholm was born in Portsmouth, England in 1947 and immigrated to Canada in 1956. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in painting in 1972 winning medal awards and the McLean Foundation Scholarship. After teaching fine art in Newfoundland he returned to Alberta and pursued a fine art, professional graphic design and communications career. Today as a practicing painter living in Alberta, his artistic focus and exploration continues to concentrate on his personal interpretation and visual expression of the temperate and arctic landscapes. His chosen use of acrylic polymer, has been developed with highly personalized visual language and expression, enhancing the “ethereal” elements of atmospheric perspective and water imagery. Through paint layering and contemporary glazing practices, most works require dozens of applications of pigment and tinted polymer mediums.
Other painters and artists who have influenced his visual and creative development include Andrew Wyeth, Bob Dylan, Jack Bush, Jackson Pollack, Leonard Cohen, Francis Bacon, Helen Frankenthaler, Lyndal Osborne, Tom Thomson, Mary Whale, A.Y. Jackson, Caio Fonseca, David Craven and David Alexander. Thank you for your interest and taking the time to visit. Please follow updates, exhibitions and progress files that will appear four to five times a year. If you would like a complimentary CD of selected retrospective works please click here. |
