Education
Fine Arts at Humber College, New School of Art, Toronto.
1970-74
Burleighfield School Great Britain, studied with Patrick Reyntiens,
1976
Mentors
Yvonne Williams, Hartwell Priest, Bill Poole, Patrick Reyntiens
Studio Experience
Personal studio, Toronto
1977-87
Head designer The Glass Studio
1984-87
Established The Church Street Press, Parry Sound
1987
Teaching
Humber College, Sheridan College, Toronto Board of Education
1973-85
Ontario College of Art
Awards
Reflections Grant, Ont. Ministry of Culture and Communication
1993
Ontario Arts Council;
study grant
1976
individual visual arts grant
1993
crafts grant
1999
exhibition assistance grants
1994, 2001, 2005
special project grant, “Ink Paper Lead..”
2001
Canada Council: Travel Grant, Leipzig, Germany
2006
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1976 – 2007
Venice – Georgian Bay Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2007
Place, Reflections on Venice and Georgian Bay Station Gallery, Parry Sound
2007
Into the Night Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2005
In Town – On the Bay Station Gallery, Parry Sound
2004
New Work pastels on paper Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2003
Paris Day & Night Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2001
Home Country District Museum, Parry Sound
2000
Latcham Gallery, Srouffville
2001
In Mexico Toronto Reference Library
1997
Carnegie Gallery, Dundas
1998
Grimsby Public Art Gallery
1998
Inner Islands-Outer Islands WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay
1995
Selected Group Exhibitions
1976 – 2007
Stifung Buchkunst Frankfurt, Leipzig, Germany
2006
Beyond the Book Grimsby Public Art Gallery
2005
Alcuin Society, Exhibition of Excellence in Book Design in Canada (Third Prize)
2004-05
Emily Carr Institute of Design. WAC Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University.
Redpath Library, McGill. University of Alberta. Design Exchange, Toronto.
Memorial Library. Acadia University.
Art of the Book ’03 York Quay Gallery, opening
2003-04
Organized by CBBAG, National touring exhibit, (juror)
Painted Sound Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, with CSPWC
2002-03
Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread
2002-03
Touring exhibition, Canada Trust Gallery, Toronto Reference Library,
W.D. Jordan Special Collections Library, Queens University Kingston.
Gallery Stratford, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph.
Drawing
2002, 2001, 2005
John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2001-05
The Eye and The Hand Etobicoke Civic Art Gallery
2001
Alcuin Society, Exhibition of Excellence in Book Design in Canada (First Prize)
2001-02
Vancouver Craft Museum, Acadia University,
Emily Carr Institute of Design, Redpath Library, McGill
The Book an Evolution in Meaning. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
2001
SCA Open Juried Exhibition John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2000-02
The Library Project travelling, organized by University of Manitoba
2001
A Brush With History, 75th Anniversary Exhibit CSPWC
2000
Art Gallery of Mississauga
Arts 2000, RCA juried exhibit, Gallery Stratford
2000
If you go down in the woods today..
1999
Works by members of the North American Wood Engravers Network Line Gallery, Scotland
Open Water juried CSPWC exhibit John B Aird Gallery, Toronto
1993-05
Artist Members Exhibition of Contemporary Bookworks
1998
Centre for Book Arts, NYC. Connecticut University, USA
Art of the Book ’98 National touring exhibit
1998-99
Organized by CBBAG, Award for Fine Printing
Fine Printing: the Private Press in Canada
1995-97
National touring exhibit, opening Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library
Hand Printed Limited Edition Artist Books
Islands compiled by Alan Stein. edition 50, 17 engravings 40pages, o/p
1994
In Mexico by Al Purdy. edition 50, 10 engravings, 80 pages, o/p
1996
Towards the Open, Georgian Bay Poems
1998
by Douglas LePan edition 75, 10 engravings, 62 pages, o/p
Home Country by Al Purdy. edition 105, 13 engravings 101 pages. o/p
2000
Say the Names by Al Purdy. edition 5, 1 engraving 6 pages
2001
In Smoke, Ten Variations on Eugenio Montale by Gary Michael Dault, edition 80,
2005
4 engravings, 38 pages
In Venice compiled by Alan Stein. edition 15, 5 stone lithographs, 32 pages
2007
Memberships
Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists Guild,
Centre for Book Arts, NYC
Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, past director
Society of Canadian Artists
Ontario Society of Artists,
Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, fine arts committee
Board of Directors, Festival of the Sound, past president
Board of Directors, The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, chair
Wood Engravers Network of North America
Selected Collections
Canada: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Massey College Library, and Victoria Library,
University of Toronto; Toronto Reference Library; McGill Univ. Library Rare book
Collection. Redpath Collection, Montreal; MacKimmie Library, Univ. of Calgary; Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, Univ. of Alberta; libraries at UBC; Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, B.C.
National Library of Canada, Redpath Collection, Grimsby Public Arts Gallery
USA: New York City Public Library, Rare Book Dept.; Wellesley College Library, NY.
Others: National Library of Ireland; National Library of New Zealand, Book and Type Museum, Leipzig. National Library of Germany.
Publications
Fraser, Lynn Canadian Bookseller magazine
2006
Arseneau, Laura Beyond the Book
2005
Dault, Gary Michael, Globe & Mail
2003
Donelly, Judy Devils Artisan #52
2003
Ink Paper Lead, Board Leather Thread, catalogue
2002
Coach House Press
Lichen, Spring
2001
Govier, Katherine, Devil’s Artisan
2001
Purdy, Al. “The 30,000 Islands of Georgian Bay”
1999
Imperial Oil Review
Queens Quarterly, volume 103, #2
1999
Upcoming Exhibitions
100 Years of Art Arts & Letters Club of Toronto
Varley Art Gallery, Markham Ontario 2008
Upcoming Books
In Venice, Whistler in Venice, 4 lithographs, 30 pages
2007
Landscape of Dreams, Ten new poems by P.K. Page, 10 engravings
2008
