Join us for the Artist Reception on Saturday, May 13 from 1:30 - 3:30

Refreshments, snacks and many stories of the Artist’s Journeys!

Featured Artist at Catching Stars for the month of May, Gregg Simpson is an internationally exhibited and recognized artist with roots in surrealism and abstraction.

He is influenced by the forested landscape surrounding his home on Bowen Island near Vancouver and by impressions gathered while traveling  in Europe.

He is known for his colourful, abstract works, many inspired by surrealist traditions. His work has been included in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions starting in the 1960s and including museums and galleries in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. Numerous academic studies, art history books and journals published in Canada, Europe and Australia feature his work. Simpson is also included in several historical surveys on surrealism.

Simpson was born in Ottawa in 1947 and moved to Vancouver at the age of six months. His father was the noted architect D.C. Simpson who instilled in him his love of shape and form. His mother, Ferne Cairns, was a professional concert singer who fostered his love of music and appreciation for travel and art. He grew up in the mid-century modern home that his father designed in West Vancouver. The house bordered the dense forests of the Capilano Canyon area that he roamed through as a boy. This background is the foundation for the numerous landscape elements incorporated into his work.

In 2003, a nationally broadcast documentary was made for BRAVO TV on his life and work, A New Arcadia: The Art of Gregg Simpson reviews his background in the Vancouver art scene of the 1960s and 1970s and includes an footage of a solo exhibition at the Fortezza di Montalcino in Tuscany, Italy, in 2000.

https://greggsimpsonart.com/about-gregg-simpson/

Preview the works online HERE