Available works:
Richard Ferrier - "Evening, Madawaska Valley"
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Richard Ferrier - "Near Rossport, Lake Superior"
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Richard Ferrier, 1929 to 2001
Born in Oshawa, Ontario, Dick Ferrier studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto (1950-53), where he won the Award of Merit for Design, a Travelling Scholarship, and the Gold Medal for Design in his graduate year. He worked in the field of commercial art and received numerous national advertising awards and became a Senior Art Director of Maclean-Hunter Limited. He served on the Board of Advisors for the Art Department of George Brown College and was consultant to a number of companies in the graphics art trade. In 1970, he turned to painting full time.
His mediums were oil and acrylic and his subjects were the mountains, lakes, woods and prairies of the Canadian landscape often creating spectacular vistas. He was a master in his use of composition, colour, light and draughtsmanship and combined in his work representational, realist, naturalist and modernist styles.
Since1974 Dick Ferrier exhibited in dozens of solo and group shows at numerous Canadian galleries. His work can be found in many private, corporate and public collections including Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario) and the Alberta Provincial Government Collection (Edmonton).
Dick Ferrier is listed in A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (1974), by Colin S. MacDonald, published by Canadian Paperbacks Ltd. (8 volumes); and in The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction (2001), by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar, published by Westbridge Publications Ltd. (4 volumes).
His mediums were oil and acrylic and his subjects were the mountains, lakes, woods and prairies of the Canadian landscape often creating spectacular vistas. He was a master in his use of composition, colour, light and draughtsmanship and combined in his work representational, realist, naturalist and modernist styles.
Since1974 Dick Ferrier exhibited in dozens of solo and group shows at numerous Canadian galleries. His work can be found in many private, corporate and public collections including Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario) and the Alberta Provincial Government Collection (Edmonton).
Dick Ferrier is listed in A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (1974), by Colin S. MacDonald, published by Canadian Paperbacks Ltd. (8 volumes); and in The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction (2001), by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar, published by Westbridge Publications Ltd. (4 volumes).