E. Robert Ross

Art Brokerage: E. Robert Ross Canadian Artist: E. Robert Ross is first and foremost a nature lover, channelling his lifelong devotion to hiking, canoeing and camping into realist paintings of the Canadian landscape. His inspiration is direct, his aim is to transport the viewer into the scene he has captured. Throughout his four decades long career, Ross has dedicated himself to depicting the "underlying spirit of nature that ties the landscape together with our human existence". Ross has aimed to make accessible what he sees and feels during his extensive travelling through the Ontario wilderness, and painting has proved to be an ideal medium for this expression. Originally inspired by landscape photographers such as Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club Photographers, his work has remained hyper-realistic, rather than impressionistic or abstract such as seen in the Group of Seven. Starting to paint shortly after his high school graduation, Ross dedicated himself as a full time painter in 1975. His success quickly skyrocketed, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton hosted a solo exhibition of his landscapes, The Wilderness Spirit, in 1978. Listings wanted.