Observational Painter • Environmental & Community Art Advocate

Born in East Germany, my family emigrated to Canada when I was seven, settling in Regina, Saskatchewan. I developed an interest in painting along with a couple of friends just prior to and throughout high school. We explored painters that appealed to us without a historical consideration, jumping from DaVinci to Van Gogh, Constable to Breugel, Vermeer and Giotto to Cezanne and Corot, and on and on. Just three guys on their own, set loose in the stacks of the Regina Public Library and excited by art.

When I started my BFA studies, first in Regina and then finishing at NSCAD, I found it hard to accept the idea that the progression of art necessarily meant invalidating prior movements. This was especially true since primitive, folk, and outsider art, such as the artists in the Prinzhorn Collection, were all outside the main art historical narrative but important to me nonetheless.

Harry Hamm – November Featured Artist

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