Ted Johnston
A native of Hamilton, Ontario,
Ted graduated from
McMaster
University in 1961and
worked in a variety of journalistic and public affairs pursuits in Canada and Europe before joining the Department of External Affairs
in 1966. He retired from
Canada’s Foreign Service in 1999.
He turned
seriously to printmaking in 1998, recalling the lessons taught at the
Corcoran School of Art in
Washington, D.C. during his posting to the Canadian
Embassy in the late Sixties. “Working with hot type and ‘on the stone’
in print shops always intrigued me. Switching between positive and
negative images to create a newspaper was fascinating. The Corcoran
experience helped me to discover the artistic side of this process.”
Working
from original photographs, he has reproduced scenes from postings and
travels in Poland, Russia, the Czech
Republic,
Turkey,
France
and other countries as well as from Canada and particularly Ottawa. Two
works-in-progress are Ottawa-focused series: Church Facades and
Steeples and The Streets of the City. They have been added to
a collection of prints of other familiar sights in
Ottawa.
Many are
familiar with prints as records of by-gone scenes or events, before
cameras were invented. By selecting contemporary scenes, however, Ted’s
prints renew one’s perception of buildings and vistas that are normally
lost through every day familiarity.
His prints
have been exhibited locally in various exhibitions and are being added
to private collections in
Ottawa
and elsewhere. Other examples of his work may be viewed in
The Virtual Gallery at
http://www.arteastottawa.com.
See examples of artist's
work
Contact Information
Phone:
(613) 748-0346
E-mail:
Ted Johnston
