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Roy Austin - "Town of Webbwood"
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Roy Austin (1910-1997)
Roy Austin was born in Faversham, England in 1910 and immigrated to Canada with his family a year later. Settling in Orangeville, Ontario, he developed a keen appreciation for Ontario’s rural landscape. At the age of 20, Austin enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and studied painting and design under JW Beatty, JEH Macdonald, Frank Carmichael and Yvonne McKague Housser. After graduating in 1934 he apprenticed as a commercial artist while refining his painting skills and participating in annual exhibitions of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy.
For over fifty years Roy Austin painted Ontario’s villages and countryside, his landscapes vividly capturing their moods in watercolours and oils. His paintings have an immediacy echoing his preference for direct location painting. Working rapidly, he composes his paintings with the skill and vision of a natural artist. Austin’s trademark style of expressive brush strokes, and bold colours in simplified shapes, pulls in the viewer.
For over fifty years Roy Austin painted Ontario’s villages and countryside, his landscapes vividly capturing their moods in watercolours and oils. His paintings have an immediacy echoing his preference for direct location painting. Working rapidly, he composes his paintings with the skill and vision of a natural artist. Austin’s trademark style of expressive brush strokes, and bold colours in simplified shapes, pulls in the viewer.