Gary Blundell was born in London, England and immigrated to Canada in 1962.  He remembers lying in a field as a child watching some balloons disappear into the vast emptiness of the sky.  He remembers looking at everything on the ground.  After graduating from University, he traveled throughout Europe looking at art.  He then began to paint.  He is inspired by Rembrandt, Turner, Soutine, Bonnard, Anselm Kiefer, Rothko, Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele, David Milne, Paterson Ewen, John Brown and Susanna Heller, among other visual artists, and dozens of musicians and authors like Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Jonny Greenwood, Virginia Woolf, Patrick White and many more.  His work has been exhibited across Canada and in England.  He was artist-in-residence at the Art House in Yorkshire England, the Straumur Arts Commune in Iceland, the Norfolk Arts Centre in Simcoe Ontario and at Pouch Cove in Newfoundland.  His work can be found in collections throughout Canada, the USA and Europe and on his website, www.hotspurstudio.com. 

You can find Gary'’s work located in the the NW Senior Common Rooms on the second floor.