Classic Danby
Ken Danby was a child when he thought I want to be an artist, so that’s what I’m going to be (That’s my idea of what he might have said, by the way; look at Ken’s awesome paintings and you’ll see where my enthusiasm comes from.) Born in 1940, the pride of Sault Ste. Marie,
Without his brother, Ken admits that he might never have started painting. It was Marvin’s art work (Ken’s brother was a talented artist in his own right) which gave the young Danby the push that would spur his career on to greater things; and the interesting thing about Ken Danby is that he wanted to be an artist from a young age and he never set aside that dream for anything else. When he was a young boy, just ten years old, he told his folks he wanted to be an artist. This was, of course, met with some cynicism – after all, how were they to know that their son was set to become one of the most championed photo-realism painters of Canadian history?
Danby’s journey to discover photo-realism – which renowned artist Andrew Wyeth played fair part in – as his chosen style wasn’t a smooth one. After leaving the Ontario College Of Art after just two short years of a dream education he went his own way, experimenting and working out where he needed to go, before settling on photo-realism. But from that point on there was no stopping him. Soon, he was recognized as one of
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