The Loch Gallery is proud to present this special exhibition of work by the late artist Michael Forster. Canadian author and art critic Paul Duval believes that it is time to restore the artist, “to his proper position as the founder of the modern art movement in Canada.”

Abroad, Forster’s paintings have been celebrated in major solo-shows. As a colourist, he has been acclaimed by noted critics, art historians and colleagues. In 1941, Graham McInness, then Canada’s leading art critic, wrote in Saturday Night: “It is rare to find someone turned inward, someone intellectually analyzing to the last drop, someone so utterly divorced from the reality of common experience today, as Michael Forster”. Noted German art historian, Paul Wetheim, referred to Forster’s “colour, a strange and fantastic world of visionary colour “ in a foreword to the artist’s eighty-eight work retrospective at Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in 1960. Forster’s famous colleague, Rufino Tamayo, opined: “Forster is one of the most commending and original colourist of our generation.”

This current exhibition of later abstractions represents a brilliant step toward restoring Michael Forster to his outstanding position in Canadian art history. Paul Duval.