With this eye-catching abstract painting, Milly Ristvedt continues her sophisticated exploration of form and colour rendered in a classic grid pattern. Indigo blue, golden yellow and white rectangles of colour create an engaging checkerboard effect.
Ristvedt is likely paying homage to the British artist, William Turner who began using chrome yellow and various blues in his paintings in the early 19th century.
Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were “more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.”

“The nature of my art is to resist words; a consequence of the basic premise of freedom of interpretation offered by abstract art, and my enduring belief in colour in painting as a language that can speak to mind, body and soul.” Milly Ristvedt

Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski and Frank Stella. Her work has been included in many publications, She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004 and honoured with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. She has won seven Canada Council awards and two Ontario Arts Council awards and had over 50 solo exhibitions and been part of countless group shows.
Ristvedt's work can be found in major public collections throughout North America.
She is represented exclusively by the Oeno Gallery.