In the Old Firehall

PO Box 867 Jasper
Alberta, Canada TOE 1E0
780-852-1994
info@jasperartistsguild.com

   

Gregory Deagle
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Since birth, the Canadian Rockies have been my mountainous home. As the grandson of George Camp, an early Jasper park warden, my family history has been intimately connected to this majestic, historical setting for four generations. My father, Frank Deagle, came from a lineage of musicians and encouraged my great love of the piano.

Since adolescence, I was fascinated by European art history. Through books and travel I worked my way back though history from French Impressionism, to the great Romantic painters, Goya, Rembrandt, and eventually the fabled epoch of the high Renaissance. I furthered my art studies in Vancouver, BC where I obtained an art history degree.

For many years I focused on the art of drawing before embracing oil on canvas as my ultimate medium. However varied my expressions, landscape art has become a familiar base even after prolonged excursions into alternative regions. A deluded romantic fi ghting for survival in the new millenium, I distract myself by painting, playing piano, writing and dreaming.

My art is motivated by my conviction that it would be impossible for me to create a work of art that does not refl ect the power of the environment in which I live.