About The Artist

Entering his second decade as a professional painter, Canadian artist Bruce Geldart is inspired by the magic that occurs when applying brush to canvas to produce light and shadow. With dedicated commitment to his craft, combined with a formal educational background in creative design and composition, his original works of art evoke a sense of mood and atmosphere that this ever-changing light creates.

“Basically, it’s a lot of hard work and massive amounts of concentration. For every 30 seconds of brushwork, there are 90 seconds of stepping back to analyze the next passages. Its all worth the effort when the light values are placed over the darks and the canvas instantly takes on a three dimensional effect. This is truly one of the exciting events for the artist. To capture a superb- quality result is the ultimate journey.”

As a graduate of California’s world-renowned Brooks Institute of Photographic Art and Science, Bruce was the owner of his own commercial advertising studio in downtown Toronto from the mid-1970’s. Capturing complex scenes through the viewfinder of a camera provided the background to later utilize the same compositional structure with traditional art on the easel. He initially discovered transparent watercolour as a medium, then later graduated into the classic medium and deep luster of ‘oils’.

To this day he continues with the methods of the ‘Old Masters’ techniques, with multiple layers of glazes that build upon each other for that museum quality luminosity of light that was so evident throughout that era. Bruce considers himself fortunate to have studied with internationally famous watercolour artist Zoltan Szabo, along with highly acclaimed Canadian artist, Jack Reid. Jack Reid was a mentor and chose Bruce from his group of students to exhibit alongside him at the Art Exhibition of “Jack Reid and Friends” at Visual Arts in Brampton, Ontario.

In 2007 Bruce attended the well-known Academy of Realist Art in Toronto for intensive study with recognized instructor Juan Martinez, who practices the renaissance methods of the Masters from past centuries. (The artists Bible, ‘International Artist Magazine’ published a 7-page spread on Juans’s development of these techniques.)

Bruce typically paints in a realist style, creating diverse subject matter with landscapes, still life, marine-scapes, florals, and requested commissions and more… As a member of North Shore artist’s guild, Bruce Geldart resides with his wife in West Vancouver, Canada.