Emma Butler Gallery
111 GEORGE ST WEST | ST. JOHN'S NL | CANADA | A1C 6K2 | 709 739-7111 | emmabutlergallery@nl.rogers.com


Historical Works
Anne Meredith Barry RCA
Anthony Barton
David Blackwood RCA
Grant Boland
Patrick Canning
Alistair Drysdale
Lori Doody
Yevhenii Fedorenko
Jean Claude Girardin
George Horan
Kathleen Knowling
John McDonald
Robert Mellin RCA
Shawn O'Hagan
Susan Paterson
Barbara Pratt
Christopher Pratt RCA
Mary Pratt RCA
Steven Rhude
Bill Rose
Jean-Claude Roy
Olaf Schneider
Dave Sheppard
Wally Shishkov
Lotti Thomas
Krista van Nostrand
Darren Whalen
Michael Young

Patrick Thomas Canning

Patrick Thomas Canning is a freelance painter, illustrator, film maker and musician who lives in St. John's Newfoundland. Patrick grew up on a farm on the west coast of the province in a small isolated hamlet called The Highlands where his mother taught him how to draw and paint. He received his BFA in visual arts from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College and has continued his practice in a variety of fields both visual and otherwise, wherever opportunity or curiosity brought him. The majority of his visual work is non-representational (but not exclusively so) and is composed of compulsively rendered lines and shapes crowded together on a plane almost devoid of negative space. His paintings are vibrant, multi-colored tangles of competing forms in the general idea of a landscape and his drawings are usually juxtapositions of natural objects in a reverie of obsessive ornamentation. He creates out of a deeply felt personal necessity and believes art that fails to distract someone from their day to day lives is as useless as any other broken piece of furniture.