John Horton - Recent Paintings
John Horton - Recent Paintings
2260 Oak Bay Avenue
Preview Saturday, December 1, 2007 10 am - 5:30 pm
(work subject to prior sale)
Opening Reception Sunday, December 2, 2007 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Artist in attendance
Elizabeth Ely, harpist; Karel Roessingh, piano
Exhibition continues until December 20, 2007
John Horton's lifelong love affair with the sea and maritime industries is readily apparent in his paintings and his lifestyle. At an early age he entered the Royal Navy and served in the Pacific, Atlantic, and finally in the Arctic. Since moving to Canada in 1966, John became a full time artist and was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Marine Artists. He has also devoted 30 years to volunteer search and rescue on the Fraser River, and there has received much inspiration from the fishing community.
At the same time he has cruised British Columbia, Washington and Alaska on his own boat, producing a scrupulously realistic body of work. A major part of this work has captured the voyages of Captain George Vancouver's explorations of the west coast of North America. His attention to technical accuracy and detail is legendary and he makes no apologies for this quest for perfectionism.
Such devotion does not go unrecognized. Horton's oils are highly prized by galleries museums and private collections the world over and have been juried into the Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition on many occasions. He was also extremely pleased to receive the Queen's Gold Medal, to have the Royal Canadian Mint select one of his drawings to be produced as a coin and be elected as an honourary member of the Company of Master Mariners of Canada.
John is very closely associated with our Canadian Navy and is a Naval War Artist.