Ken Danby
Background Information
•Name: Ken Danby (Kenneth Edison Danby)
•Date of Birth: March 6, 1940
•Place of Birth: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
•Death: September 23, 2007
•Nationality: Canadian
•Family members:
•Father- Edison Danby
•Mother- Gertrude Buckley
•Brother- Marvih Danby
•Son- Noah Danby (been in various commercials, movies and television shows)

Education
• Student at the local Technical and Commercial High School
• (September, 1958) Ken received his parents' permission to go to the Ontario College of Art.
• His first year at the Ontario College of Art was an important growth experience.
• However, Danby's second year was less successful because most classes are learning abstract paintings.
•(April, 1960) Danby left Ontario College of Art when he had completed the second year of college.
Job History
•During the next few years after he left his college, Danby worked briefly as a set designer for a Sault Ste. Marie television station and at CFTO studios in Toronto.
•Then he had window displays for a women's wear chain and designed labels for a packaging company.

Philosophy/Quotes
• "My paintings explore my first-hand experiences. Yet, what you see is not simply what I saw… but how I want you to see it."
• "Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience."
• "Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others."
• "My paintings don't simply represent what I see, they present viewers with what I want them to see."
• "Everything I paint is the result of my personal visions and experience."

Three pieces of art work:
1. “Stampede”
2006, acrylic polymer on canvas
36 x 96 in. (91 x 244 cm)

2. “Breakers”
1988, oil on canvas
66 x 88 in (152.4 x 223.5 cm)

3. "Face Off”
1997, egg tempera
28 x 42 in (71.1 x 106.7 cm)

Critic's review of Ken Danby
1. "Danby's not only a part of Canadian art history, he helped mold it. His paintings are some of the clearest links to this country's tradition of landscape painting and the popularity of his work confirms that the love affair is still going strong." -Flavio Belli,Director & Curator, Carrier Gallery

2. "He is one of our nation's foremost realist painters. His images, which often depict familiar and cherished Canadian themes, have earned him an international following. - Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson,Governor General of Canada

How does this artist inspires me?
•Realistic
•He always captures the perfect moment to paint (make you feel like you are with him when he paint it.)
•Choices of colour
•Sketches/Studies

How will it help my own work?
• More realistic
• Capture a movement
• Sketches more and studies more

Bibliography
Danby, Ken. “Ken Danby”. Face Off. 3 Oct. 2008

Danby, Ken. “The official Ken Danby Website.” The art of Ken Danby. 3 Oct. 2008

Duval, Paul. “Ken Danby: The New Decade” Don Mills: Moos Publishing, 1984
“Ken Danby.” Ken Danby –Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. 10, Sept, 2008. Wikipedia Foundation, Inc. 5, Oct, 2008