About the artist
Clive Powsey was born in Ashford, Kent, U.K., 1958, and studied drawing, painting and printmaking at The Ontario College of Art, spending the fourth and final year in an off-campus program in Florence, Italy. He has exhibited regularly in public and commercial galleries since 1981. Group exhibitions include International Waters (1991) with members of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the American Watercolour Society, and The Royal Watercolour Society. The show travelled to Toronto, New York and London. His watercolours have also won awards, including the D.L. Stevenson Award for Excellence (2009) at the CSPWC annual Open Waters exhibition, and Best Watercolour (1999) at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Clive has also worked in animated film and television from 1985 to 2016 with screen credits as an art director and background artist. He has worked for Nelvana Ltd., Walt Disney Animation Canada, Chuck Gammage Animation, Bear Spots, Animation House and Red Rover on commercials, animated TV series such as Droids, Free Willy, Rupert the Bear, Dog City, and Franklin the Turtle, and on movies and direct-to-video productions including Babar: The Movie, Pippi!, and Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. Unique projects for which he painted backgrounds are an IMAX/OMIMAX format animated short, Journey to the Planets, and a National Film Board documentary co-production, The Dark Years. In September 2014 he volunteered for Team Generous and with nine other animation industry artists made a two minute short movie to promote Habitat for Humanity. He has taught drawing and painting courses at the Ontario College of Art (1988-92), now OCADU, and background painting at Max the Mutt Animation School (1999-2003) in Toronto. He currently teaches drawing and rendering in a Metal Jewelry Design Program and drawing in Continuing Education at North Island College.
Clive’s most recent watercolour paintings have generally been landscapes from Vancouver Island and the west coast of British Columbia. Clive's hand-pulled prints are built on a foundation of hard-earned drawing skills.
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Clive Powsey was born in Ashford, Kent, U.K., 1958, and studied drawing, painting and printmaking at The Ontario College of Art, spending the fourth and final year in an off-campus program in Florence, Italy. He has exhibited regularly in public and commercial galleries since 1981. Group exhibitions include International Waters (1991) with members of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the American Watercolour Society, and The Royal Watercolour Society. The show travelled to Toronto, New York and London. His watercolours have also won awards, including the D.L. Stevenson Award for Excellence (2009) at the CSPWC annual Open Waters exhibition, and Best Watercolour (1999) at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Clive has also worked in animated film and television from 1985 to 2016 with screen credits as an art director and background artist. He has worked for Nelvana Ltd., Walt Disney Animation Canada, Chuck Gammage Animation, Bear Spots, Animation House and Red Rover on commercials, animated TV series such as Droids, Free Willy, Rupert the Bear, Dog City, and Franklin the Turtle, and on movies and direct-to-video productions including Babar: The Movie, Pippi!, and Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. Unique projects for which he painted backgrounds are an IMAX/OMIMAX format animated short, Journey to the Planets, and a National Film Board documentary co-production, The Dark Years. In September 2014 he volunteered for Team Generous and with nine other animation industry artists made a two minute short movie to promote Habitat for Humanity. He has taught drawing and painting courses at the Ontario College of Art (1988-92), now OCADU, and background painting at Max the Mutt Animation School (1999-2003) in Toronto. He currently teaches drawing and rendering in a Metal Jewelry Design Program and drawing in Continuing Education at North Island College.
Clive’s most recent watercolour paintings have generally been landscapes from Vancouver Island and the west coast of British Columbia. Clive's hand-pulled prints are built on a foundation of hard-earned drawing skills.
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Curriculum vitae
Education
Ontario College of Art
1976-1980 Graduated in Fine Arts: drawing, painting, and printmaking
Final year in off campus program, Florence, Italy
Banff School of Fine Arts
1976 Summer program in drawing and painting
Awards and Grants
D. L. Stevenson Award for excellence in watercolour, 'Open Water', Annual Juried Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, 2009
Best Watercolour, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, 1999 Canada Council Short Term Grant, 1984
Nature Artist’s Scholarship from the Canadian Nature Federation, 1983
Nora E. Vaughan Scholarship for Drawing and Painting, Ontario College of Art, 1979
Tuition Scholarship, Banff School of Fine Arts, 1976
Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions
2018 The Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach, BC, 'Uninvited Images', exhibition of printmaking.
2016 Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay BC, 'Terrain Traps And Other Delightful Horrors', exhibition of printmaking.
2015 Fifty/Fifty Art Collective Victoria BC, 'What You See Is What You Get' exhibition of printmaking.
2015 McMillan Gallery, Parksville, BC, 'Transmitted Drawings', an exhibition of silkscreen and intaglio prints.
2013, Art Alchemy, Courtenay, BC, Drawings
2011 Corre Alice Gallery, Cumberland, BC, 'Complex Terrain: Figurative Drawings'
2011 Dales Gallery, 'Man Eating Landscapes', Victoria, BC
2010 The Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach, BC
2009 Tarbell's Cafe, Cumberland, BC
2007 Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC, with ceramicist Meg Burgess
2007 The Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach, BC
2006 Muir Gallery, Courtenay, BC, solo exhibit
2004 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
2001 Artist’s Showcase, Town Hall, Bowmanville, Ontario, solo exhibit
2001 Rosedale United Church, Toronto, solo exhibit
2000 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
2000 Ashton Evicta Gallery, Toronto, with Andrew Kwiecinski
1998 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
1995 Gallery 306, Toronto, solo exhibit
1994 Williamson House Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, solo exhibit
1993 Bancroft Art Gallery, Bancroft, Ontario, solo exhibit
1990 Brock Street Gallery, Kingston, Ontario, with Bonnie Brooks
1990 Gallerie Rochon, Toronto, solo exhibit
1988 The Magpie, Port Hope, Ontario, solo exhibit
1986 Art Gallery of Peterborough, solo exhibit
1985 Thomas Gallery, Port Hope, Ontario, solo exhibit
1984 Thomas Gallery, Port Hope, Ontario, solo exhibit
1984 Trail College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, with Norma Pattuelli
1983 Thomas Gallery, Port Hope, Ontario, with ‘Inuit Carvings from Quebec’
1981 Gallery 76, Toronto, with Esther Lui
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 'Three Submerging Artists', Tony Martin, Gordon Greenhough, Clive Powsey, Oceanside Arts Council Gallery, Parksville, BC 2010 Reflections, Juried Members Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Roberts Gallery, Toronto 2010 Current Streams, juried Exhibition of BC members of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Port Coquitlam 2009 Open Waters, Annual Juried Exhibition of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Leighton Centre, Alberta 2009 Cumberland Life Drawing Group Exhibition at Tarbells Café, Cumberland 2008 Cumberland Life Drawing Group Exhibition at Tarbells Café, Cumberland BC 2008 The Codpiece and Merkin Show, Comox Valley Art Gallery 2006 Waterworks, CSPWC BC Members exhibition, Blackberry Gallery, Port Moody, BC
2006 Nanaimo Art Gallery (downtown) Watercolour landscapes from Vancouver Island (feature artist)
2005 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, ‘Exquisite smaller works: Marilyn Goslin, Janet Read, Jane Hunter, David Silverberg, Peer Christiansen, Emma Hesse, Willem Verhulst, Clive Powsey’
2003 Hunter West Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, ‘4 Watercolour Painters: Jane Hunter, Les Parkes, Ray Partridge, Clive Powsey’
2004/2003/2000/1999/1998 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
2000 MacLaren-Barnes Gallery, Oakville
1999 Canadian Spaces, North American Centre of Oriental Arts, Toronto
1998 The Temagami 22, Temagami Welcome Centre Gallery, an exhibition and sale of artwork with a catalogue of participants organized by the Canadian Wildflower Society to raise awareness of remaining stands of old white and red pine in the Temagami area
1991 International Waters, a joint exhibition with catalogue of participants by the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the American Watercolour Society, and the Royal Watercolour Society
1991 Art For Preservation Exhibition and Auction, a touring show with a catalogue of participants, organized as a fundraiser by the Temagami Wilderness Fund and Earthroots Coalition in a campaign to preserve old growth pine forest in the Temagami area
1986 Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, ‘New Faces’
1986 Thomas Gallery, ‘Four Artists’, Port Hope, Ontario
Teaching experience
North Island College Continuing Education, 2010/11, Watercolour and Drawing Course
Mechosin International Summer School For the Arts, Mechosisn, 2010, Instructor of weekend watercolour painting workshop
The Old School House Centre for the Arts, Qualicum Beach, 2009-2011, Instructor, watercolour painting, life drawing, courses and workshops.
Campell River Art Gallery, 2010, Instructor, weekend watercolour workshops in studio and en plein air.
Comox Valley Art Gallery, 2008-2010, Courtenay, Instructor, Survey of Life Drawing Method
Max the Mutt Animation School, Toronto, 2001 – 2004, nstructor of background painting
Bowmanville Visual Arts Centre, Bowmanville, 2003 – 2004, Advanced watercolour
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 1987-1991, Instructor of drawing and watercolour classes
Selected Animated Film and Television Screen Credits
Franklin’s Magic Christmas, Direct to video feature, Nelvana Ltd. 2001, Art Director
Franklin and the Green Knight, Direct to video feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1999, Art Director; Overseas Supervisor of background painting
Beauty and the Beast; The Enchanted Christmas, Direct to video feature, Walt Disney Animation Canada, 1997, Art Director
Pippi Longstocking, Theatrical release feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1996, Art Director
Journey to the Planets, Imax/Omnimax short theatrical feature, Bear Spots, 1993, Background Painter
Babar: The Movie, Theatrical release feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1989, Art Director; Overseas Supervisor of background painting
Carebears in Wonderland, Theatrical release feature, Nelvana Ltd. 1988, Background Stylist
1985 - 1995, Carebears Series background stylist; Dog City Series background stylist: Babar Series background stylist; Rupert Series background stylist; My Pet Monster background stylist; Free Willy background stylist, Droids Series layout artist.
1989 – 2005, Background painting and development sketches for animated television advertising for Bear Spots, Animation House, Chuck Gammage Animation, Red Rover Studios, Guru Studio, Squeeze, and Laughing Horse (Germany). Art Direction on Back to School with Franklin, a television special produced by Nelvana Inc. (2002).
2007, Background painter and stylist for The Dark Years, an animated documentary co-produced by Chuck Gammage Animation Inc., Barner-Alper Productions, and the National Film Board of Canada.
2008-2010, Freelance 2d background artwork for Chuck Gammage Animation Inc. for television commercials, development promos, and interactive web games.
Selected Collections
McCain Foods
Trent University
Providence Healthcare
IBM Canada
HSB Asset Management
Gibralter Solutions
Fulcrum North
Diploma Collection of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Art Gallery of Peel