Thought for Today:
"Back in 1967, when I prepared my first art show to mark the celebration of Canada's centennial year, I chose as subjects a series of human-made artifacts that had survived the previous hundred years. In Halton County just west of Toronto, where I then lived, such subjects were not difficult to find: old barns, Victorian farmhouses, wooden pumps and split-rail fences were there in abundance. Now, with the exception of an old chapel, everything I painted is gone."
Robert Bateman Natural Worlds, text by Rick Archbold, Wellfleet Press, 2005. Madison Press Ltd.
"Back in 1967, when I prepared my first art show to mark the celebration of Canada's centennial year, I chose as subjects a series of human-made artifacts that had survived the previous hundred years. In Halton County just west of Toronto, where I then lived, such subjects were not difficult to find: old barns, Victorian farmhouses, wooden pumps and split-rail fences were there in abundance. Now, with the exception of an old chapel, everything I painted is gone."
Robert Bateman Natural Worlds, text by Rick Archbold, Wellfleet Press, 2005. Madison Press Ltd.
Robert Bateman, Canadian artist, naturalist (1930 - )
Photo: lwalker, Haldimand County
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