Surprise Lake
Oil on Canvas
36” x 48”

Moraine Lake - SOLD
Oil on Canvas
36” x 48”

Morning Ski Chateau Whistler
Oil on Canvas
36” x 48”

In 1946, at the age of two, Rod Prouse and his family emigrated to Canada from England. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1968 and worked for a brief period in the commercial art world before becoming a full-time artist. In 1972, Prouse settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia and began to exhibit his work. His first one-man show, in 1977 at the Canadian Fine Arts Gallery in Toronto, met with rave reviews. Subsequent Canadian and international exhibitions have proven equally successful. He currently lives in Georgian Bay, Ontario and travels widely capturing the life & energy of each place he visits within his art.

Rod has worked in watercolours, gouache, pastel, conte, oil and pencil, as well as with drawing tools as unlikely as routers, skill saws and grinders. His painting is accomplished and assured, exuding a great sense of vitality and exuberance. Within his woodcuts and engravings he creates intact universes embedded in line and shape.

Rod spends several weeks every year in Jasper, Alberta, creating wonderful images of the townsite and Park exclusively for The Gallery At Jasper Park Lodge.

Artists’ Statement
‘My work is figurative with a strong sense of location, not so much to represent place, as to celebrate unique encounters with the natural world.’

Selected Public Collections:
Harbourfront, Toronto
City of North York
Town of Wetzlar, West Germany
Toronto Public Library
Scarborough Board of Education
Pickering College, Newmarket
Campion College
University of Regina Erindale College
University of Toronto

Selected Corporate Collections:
Sears
Seaway Trust
Permanent Trust
Perle Systems Limited
Imperial Tobacco Co.
Hyal Phamaceutical Ltd.
Hudson’s Bay Company
Domtar Canada
Dofasco Canada
Dean Whittier Reynolds
Conklin Amusements
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Bryston Ltd.
Bank on Nova Scotia
Allstate Insurance