ROSS BISHOP

Titled "Fanfare", signed lower right, also signed and dated 2015 on the verso, acrylic on board, 45.7 x 61cm (18 x 24in); Provenance: Galerie D'Arts Contemporains, Montreal, original price $840.00; Ross Bishop, contemporary London, Ontario artist, born in North Bay, graduated from the University of Guelph, B.Sc. (H.K.) in 1979 and lived in London ever since; although having a science background, his appreciation always existed for the aesthetics of movement and colour and has been painting abstract art for twenty years; "To me, abstract painting is an introspective method of painting, which the interested viewer must let the painting communicate. It may be an instantaneous communication or it may take time. Abstract paintings make you think, wonder and feel. There are no easily recognized life lines to grasp for easy understanding. That is to say, I am not painting landscapes, so don't look for a tree. Realism on canvas has its place, just not here"; Ross Bishop's paintings have been exhibited in London, Toronto and Montreal galleries