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Band, William / Brand, Sandy / Caldwell, Gil / Chadwick, Phil / Donati, Susan / Durie, Sally
Elkin, Elizabeth / Fisher Odjig, Darla / Gadjanski, DD / Henry, Ben & Loreene /
Hook, Elva / Krasniak, Zenia / Mays, Doug / Montague, Christine / Peter, Marg / Sabourin, Pierre / Sinnott, Heather / Smith, Brian / Smykovska, Mila / Taylor, Rick /
Wagner, Bobbi / Warren, Bob / Williams, Michael
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Artistic
Biography of “Phil the Forecaster”
Chadwick
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Trained
at Queen's University as a nuclear physicist,
“Phil the Forecaster" has been
a professional meteorologist since 1976.
However, painting has always been his
passion. Phil is an avid “plein
air” painter when he’s not doing severe
weather prediction for Environment Canada
or tending his apiary on Watershed Farm
near Schomberg. Phil paints strong, colourful
panels of Canadiana with a passion for visually
expressing the effects of weather on water,
land and light.
Phil became the first Southampton Art School
Artist in Residence in 2006. His work was
also accepted to hang along side the work
of some big name Canadian artists in the Algonquin
Arts Centre and other galleries in Ontario
. He also toured across Canada as the 2006
Tour Speaker for the Canadian Meteorological
and Oceanographic Society. Phil’s work
now hangs around the world… life is
good!
In his own words: “I live and paint
out of passion for the natural world. I am
inspired by nature, family and fellow artists
to see beyond the surface and to share the
experience – a vision in pigment and
texture. My immediate goal is to extract the
maximum amount of inspiration from the moment
and have fun doing it while surrounded by
and immersed in the natural elements. Somehow
the soul of the scene finds its way on to
the canvas.
My simple desire is to make the next painting
my new favourite and to improve in capturing
the essence of the subject with lots of colour
and bold strokes!
Life is good ... very good! Plus you gotta
laugh!” |
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