Aritist Bio - Bob Canning (Cobalt Fine Arts Gallery)
 Bob Canning Cowboy Artist
“My work is both old and new…it plays with nostalgia,
but in its grand scale, it is both modern and contemporary.”
Bob was born in a small town in Ontario, Canada. He grew up around honest and honorable men and women, where farming, milking cattle and raising horses were and still are a family tradition since 1896.
After High school he received a scholarship to Art College in Toronto, where he studied drawing with renowned Canadian artist, Dr. Robert Ross. After two successful one-man shows in the early 60’s, Bob’s career took off when he jumped into the advertising business as an Art Director. He followed this with a move to the film industry, where Bob had a long and fruitful career as a Film Director, winning awards from Hollywood to Cannes.
Bob started painting again in 1995, using his much acclaimed film eye and story-telling ability to enhance his images. His bold and colorful acrylics portray the cowboy in his single-mindedness, strong, dutiful and loyal. Bob is now a storyteller with a brush. He uses color, composition and pose as building blocks to capture the simplicity of the present, yet at the same time giving you enough history of the subject for you to continue the story and fill in the blanks. Bob’s work has caught the eye of many fine collectors and his paintings hang in art collections in both the U.S. and Canada.
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