ARTIST PROFILE
Jack Armstrong
Jack Armstrong arrived in Canada in 1960 from Belfast, Ireland. He started painting at the age of 18, left it alone for 15 years, and then took it up again and has been painting for the last 15 years.
Jack is a self-taught artist in oil, but he has recently started to paint in acrylics as well. He is a landscape painter who has painted scenes from sketches done in Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand, and Northern Ontario. One of his favourite areas to paint is the farming area around Owen Sound, Ontario.
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Jack Armstrong paints in a style similar to (and is inspired by) the famous Scottish landscape painter, James MacIntosh Patrick, who paints the natural beauty of Scotland. As well, Jack gets inspiration from the Canadian landscape and heritage artist James Lorimer Keirstead. |
One of Jack's paintings was offered as a door prize at this year's
Art in the Park. It was done in acrylic and was
composed from memory of different scenes north of Batchewana in
Northern Ontario.
– Judy Henderson
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