New Paintings

July 13 - August 23, 2014

Reception: July 13th, 1 - 4 PM

Kathryn Bemrose trained at Ontario College of Art and Arts Sake from 1973 to 1979, under noted Toronto painters Gordon Rayner, David Bolduc, Robert Markle, Dennis Burton and Robert Hedrick.

From 1982 to 1986 she lived in Algonquin Park but returned to Toronto after receiving a Canada Council grant.

Since then she has exhibited in many private and public galleries. Bemrose was represented for six years by Christopher Cutts Gallery, one of the top Toronto galleries, where she had a sell-out exhibition. She was featured there in a Two-Person show alongside the work of Tom Hodgson Hodgeson & Bemrose Sneak Preview 1991.

Bemrose was also featured alongside Ray Mead at public galleries Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Frederick Horseman Varley Museum Paint and Ink: The Tools of Kathryn Bemrose and Ray Mead 2001-2. Mead and Hodgson are both members of the Painters Eleven.

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery presented a retrospective of Bemroses work titled Ten Years 1999. After this she had a large solo show called Restraining Order at the Art Gallery of Mississauga 2002. She was inducted into the Royal Academy of Canadian Art R.C.A. in 2003.