48” x 48” Oil and Encaustic 2024
Born in Calgary in 1956, Mark Holliday's family moved to England when he was five years old. Most of his youth was spent in the English Lake District, which is famous for its profound beauty. Although after leaving school he maintained a career as a welder Holliday often acknowledged his artistic urges by periodically sketching and painting animals and buildings.
In 1984, taking advantage of his Canadian citizenship and looking for a challenging experience, he returned to Calgary. Working as an Industrial pipe fitter for the next few years Holliday began to ponder an odd career change. By 1990 he had quit his job and was enrolled in a fine arts course at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Graduating with honors in 1994 Holliday was also one of the founding members of Untitled Art Society. In recent years he has become recognized as an accomplished painter, his work offering an unusual approach to traditional landscape painting.
Michael Cameron studied at Carlton University, Ontario College of Art and Design and The Banff Centre for the Arts. He has been involved in numerous art exhibitions in Calgary, Banff and Toronto. He has been a Banff-based artist since a landscape artist residency at The Banff Centre. "I'm not sure why I prefer the image to the idea, that's just the way it is. When I moved out west I met other painters doing the same sort of thing I was doing.
I was exposed to a type of context in painting that I liked, so I stayed.” Painting "gives me the kind of space that I need for my ideas or images to evolve. It tends to slow things down enough to suit my personality. Painting makes me more aware of the place I live and hopefully the world that I live in.”
48” x 48” Oil and Encaustic 2024
Born in Calgary in 1956, Mark Holliday's family moved to England when he was five years old. Most of his youth was spent in the English Lake District, which is famous for its profound beauty. Although after leaving school he maintained a career as a welder Holliday often acknowledged his artistic urges by periodically sketching and painting animals and buildings.
In 1984, taking advantage of his Canadian citizenship and looking for a challenging experience, he returned to Calgary. Working as an Industrial pipe fitter for the next few years Holliday began to ponder an odd career change. By 1990 he had quit his job and was enrolled in a fine arts course at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Graduating with honors in 1994 Holliday was also one of the founding members of Untitled Art Society. In recent years he has become recognized as an accomplished painter, his work offering an unusual approach to traditional landscape painting.
Michael Cameron studied at Carlton University, Ontario College of Art and Design and The Banff Centre for the Arts. He has been involved in numerous art exhibitions in Calgary, Banff and Toronto. He has been a Banff-based artist since a landscape artist residency at The Banff Centre. "I'm not sure why I prefer the image to the idea, that's just the way it is. When I moved out west I met other painters doing the same sort of thing I was doing.
I was exposed to a type of context in painting that I liked, so I stayed.” Painting "gives me the kind of space that I need for my ideas or images to evolve. It tends to slow things down enough to suit my personality. Painting makes me more aware of the place I live and hopefully the world that I live in.”
