About
I was born in Ashford, Kent, U.K., 1958, and studied drawing, painting and printmaking at The Ontario College of Art, spending the fourth and final year in an off-campus program in Florence, Italy. Exhibited regularly in public and commercial galleries since 1981. Group exhibitions include International Waters (1991) with members of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the American Watercolour Society, and The Royal Watercolour Society. The show travelled to Toronto, New York and London. My watercolours have also won awards, including the D.L. Stevenson Award for Excellence (2009) at the CSPWC annual Open Waters exhibition, and Best Watercolour (1999) at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.
I have also worked in animated film and television from 1985 to 2015 with screen credits as an art director and background artist. Worked for Nelvana Ltd., Walt Disney Animation Canada, Chuck Gammage Animation, Bear Spots, Animation House and Red Rover on commercials, animated TV series such as Droids, Free Willy, Rupert the Bear, Dog City, and Franklin the Turtle, and on movies and direct-to-video productions including Babar: The Movie, Pippi!, and Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. Unique projects for which I've painted backgrounds are an IMAX/OMIMAX format animated short, Journey to the Planets, and a National Film Board documentary co-production, The Dark Years. In September 2014 I volunteered for Team Generous with nine other animation industry artists to make a two minute short movie to promote Habitat for Humanity.
I have often worked as an art instructor including courses in drawing and painting at the Ontario College of Art (1988-92), now OCADU, and in background painting design at Max the Mutt Animation School (1999-2003) in Toronto. Currently teaching a course in drawing and rendering and a course in design fundamentals in the Metal Jewelry Design Certificate Program at North Island College.
-The finished prints on this site are pulled by hand on presses or pulled by hand through screens onto paper. Some of them utilize stencils and spray paint, some use mono-printing - painting on a plate, and some are hand drawn in part or painted or tinted with watercolour or other pigments. I also employ a sort of collage; chine colle, with print. When chine colle is used it's often my own drawings, spray paintings or prints being re-purposed or old books I have lavished attention on in decades past. Editions are small, variable or non existent. Some print techniques, like drypoint, are necessarily limited in number due to the rapid break down of the burr on the plate. My primary concern is not with producing a large number of identical images but with drawing and the unique aesthetic of printmaking.
Scroll down to see full CV. A watercolour website can be found at www.clivepowseywatercolour.weebly.com . You can visit a website specifically for information on my classes or workshops at http://clivepowseyartinstruction.weebly.com/.
Clive Powsey Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ontario College of Art
1976-1980 Graduated in Fine Arts: drawing, painting, and printmaking
Final year in off campus program, Florence, Italy
Banff School of Fine Arts
1976 Summer program in drawing and painting
Awards and Grants
D. L. Stevenson Award for excellence in watercolour, 'Open Water', Annual Juried Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, 2009
Best Watercolour, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, 1999
Canada Council Short Term Grant, 1984
Nature Artist’s Scholarship from the Canadian Nature Federation, 1983
Nora E. Vaughan Scholarship for Drawing and Painting, Ontario College of Art, 1979
Tuition Scholarship, Banff School of Fine Arts, 1976
Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions
2018 Cursed Images (printmaking), The Old School House Center For the Arts, Qualicum Beach, BC
2016 Terrain Traps and Other Delightful Horrors (printmaking), as part of MAP, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC.
2015 What You See Is What You Get (printmaking), The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
2015 Transmitted Drawings (printmaking), McMillan Gallery, Oceanside Arts Council, Parksville, BC
2013 Effigies, New Drawing, Art Alchemy Studios, Courtenay BC
2011 Corre Alice Gallery, Cumberland, BC, 'Complex Terrain: Figurative Drawings'
2011 Dales Gallery, 'Man Eating Landscapes', Victoria, BC
2010 The Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach, BC
2009 Tarbell's Cafe, Cumberland, BC
2007 Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC, with ceramicist Meg Burgess
2007 The Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach, BC
2006 Muir Gallery, Courtenay, BC, solo exhibit
2004 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
2001 Artist’s Showcase, Town Hall, Bowmanville, Ontario, solo exhibit
2001 Rosedale United Church, Toronto, solo exhibit
2000 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
2000 Ashton Evicta Gallery, Toronto, with Andrew Kwiecinski
1998 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
1995 Gallery 306, Toronto, solo exhibit
1994 Williamson House Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
1993 Bancroft Art Gallery, Bancroft, Ontario, solo exhibit
1990 Brock Street Gallery, Kingston, Ontario, with Bonnie Brooks
1990 Gallerie Rochon, Toronto, solo exhibit
1988 The Magpie, Port Hope, Ontario, solo exhibit
1986 Art Gallery of Peterborough, solo exhibit
1985 Thomas Gallery, Port Hope, Ontario, solo exhibit
1984 Thomas Gallery, Port Hope, Ontario, solo exhibit
1984 Trail College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, with Norma Pattuelli
1983 Thomas Gallery, Port Hope, Ontario, with ‘Inuit Carvings from Quebec’
1981 Gallery 76, Toronto, with Esther Lui
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Three Submerging Artists', Tony Martin, Gordon Greenhough, Clive Powsey, Oceanside Arts Council Gallery, Parksville, BC
2010 Reflections, Juried Members Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Roberts Gallery, Toronto
2010 Current Streams, juried Exhibition of BC members of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Port Coquitlam
2009 Open Waters, Annual Juried Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Leighton Centre, Alberta
2009 Cumberland Life Drawing Group Exhibition at Tarbells Café, Cumberland
2008 Cumberland Life Drawing Group Exhibition at Tarbells Café, Cumberland BC
2008 The Codpiece and Merkin Show, Comox Valley Art Gallery
2006 Waterworks, CSPWC BC Members exhibition, Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody, BC
2006 Nanaimo Art Gallery (downtown) Watercolour landscapes from Vancouver Island (feature artist)
2005 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, ‘Exquisite smaller works: Marilyn Goslin, Janet Read, Jane Hunter, David Silverberg, Peer Christiansen, Emma Hesse, Willem Verhulst, Clive Powsey’
2003 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, ‘4 Watercolour Painters: Jane Hunter, Les Parkes, Ray Partridge, Clive Powsey’
2004/2003/2000/1999/1998 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
2000 MacLaren-Barnes Gallery, Oakville
1999 Canadian Spaces, North American Centre of Oriental Arts, Toronto
1998 The Temagami 22, Temagami Welcome Centre Gallery, an exhibition and sale of artwork with a catalogue of participants organized by the Canadian Wildflower Society to raise awareness of remaining stands of old white and red pine in the Temagami area
1991 International Waters, a joint exhibition with catalogue of participants by the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the American Watercolour Society, and the Royal Watercolour Society
1991 Art For Preservation Exhibition and Auction, a touring show with a catalogue of participants, organized as a fundraiser by the Temagami Wilderness Fund and Earthroots Coalition in a campaign to preserve old growth pine forest in the Temagami area
1986 Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, ‘New Faces’
1986 Thomas Gallery, ‘Four Artists’, Port Hope, Ontario
Teaching experience
North Island Metal Jewellery Program, 2013 to present, instructor of a drawing and introductory design course
North Island College Continuing Education, 2010 to present Watercolour and Drawing Courses
Mechosin International Summer School For the Arts, Mechosisn, 2010, 2016, Instructor of weekend watercolour painting workshop
The Old School House Centre for the Arts, Qualicum Beach, 2009-2011, Instructor, watercolour painting, life drawing, courses and workshops
Campell River Art Gallery, 2010, Instructor, weekend watercolour workshops in studio and en plein air
Comox Valley Art Gallery, 2008-2010, Courtenay, Instructor, Survey of Life Drawing Method
Max the Mutt Animation School, Toronto, 2001 – 2004, instructor of background painting
Bowmanville Visual Arts Centre, Bowmanville, 2003 – 2004, Advanced watercolour
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 1987-1991, Instructor of drawing and watercolour classes
Residencies
Artist in Residence at North Island College, printmaking studios, July/August 2016
Speaking Engagements
North Island College, Artist Talk, February 2018
North Island Elder College, Artist Talk, 2016
North Island Elder College, Artist Talk, 2015
Selected Animated Film and Television Screen Credits
Franklin’s Magic Christmas, Direct to video feature, Nelvana Ltd. 2001, Art Director
Franklin and the Green Knight, Direct to video feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1999, Art Director; Overseas Supervisor of background painting
Beauty and the Beast; The Enchanted Christmas, Direct to video feature, Walt Disney Animation Canada, 1997, Art Director
Pippi Longstocking, Theatrical release feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1996, Art Director
Journey to the Planets, Imax/Omnimax short theatrical feature, Bear Spots, 1993, Background Painter
Babar: The Movie, Theatrical release feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1989, Art Director; Overseas Supervisor of background painting
Carebears in Wonderland, Theatrical release feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1988, Background Stylist
1985 - 1995, Carebears Series background stylist; Dog City Series background stylist: Babar Series background stylist; Rupert Series background stylist; My Pet Monster background stylist; Free Willy background stylist, Droids Series layout artist.
1989 – 2005, Background painting and development sketches for animated television advertising for Bear Spots, Animation House, Chuck Gammage Animation, Red Rover Studios, Guru Studio, Squeeze, and Laughing Horse (Germany). Art Direction on Back to School with Franklin, a television special produced by Nelvana Inc. (2002).
2007, Background painter and stylist for The Dark Years, an animated documentary co-produced by Chuck Gammage Animation Inc., Barner-Alper Productions, and the National Film Board of Canada.
2008-2010, Freelance 2d background artwork for Chuck Gammage Animation Inc. for television commercials, development promos, and interactive web games.
Selected Collections
North Island College
McCain Foods
Trent University
Providence Healthcare
IBM Canada
HSB Asset Management
Gibralter Solutions
Fulcrum North
Diploma Collection of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Art Gallery of Peel
University of Toronto
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