Price range: $300-$50,000
1933 - 2013
Ted Godwin
, OC, LLD, RCA
1962 Painting at Stratford Exhibition. A painter must be involved as deeply and completely in life as possible for it is only through living that “life” can be assessed, re-arranged, or mirrored. My painting is a process of discovery and evaluation of the internal and external forces I apprehend. These stimuli are re-arranged to become part of my personal vocabulary of abstraction. The success of a work is dependent upon how well the stimulus has been absorbed and the degree of command I have established over the image and the artifices used to create it with.
1965 NMAG Exhibition
My concern while making a painting is in obtaining a cohesive order of a group of images and events. Viewers (I prefer to call them participants) establish rapport at the level of generalities rather than with the events or situations that concerned me while making the work.
A painting should interrupt the surface it is on, posing a confrontation between itself and things animate and inanimate in it’s environment.
I prefer paintings to be environmental to the extent that the viewer is sufficiently involved in all or some of the external dimensions.
Available Works
Dance of Nataraja, 1993
Wild Rice, Lily Pads, ca. 1970
Catalogs
Clem Said Group Exhibition e-Catalog 2017
“ClemSaid” Group Exhibition:
Works by: Ronald Bloore, Ted Godwin, Dorothy Knowles, Kenneth Lochhead, and Harold Town
October 11 – 26, 2017
“ClemSaid” explores the relationships -from positive to negative- that this renowned critic had on 5 artists currently represented by Wallace Galleries.
Exhibition e-Catalog available HERE
The five artists; Ronald Bloore, Ted Godwin, Dorothy Knowles, Kenneth Lochhead, and Harold Town each had their own experiences and opinions on Greenberg and his views on [Modern] art.
As an influential art mind, Greenberg impacted the Canadian art scene with his visits, and his brief or lifelong connection with each artist exhibited had an impact on their art career in one way or another.
We invite you to enjoy the works and walk through a bit of history with each of these great artists… let your mind go & explore another world.
Ted Godwin: A Retrospective e-Catalog 2020
TED GODWIN: A RETROSPECTIVE // PHASE I: ON-LINE LAUNCH
MAY 23 – JUNE 17, 2020
Known as “The Kid”, Godwin was a professor at the University of Regina in the 50s and 60s, and one of five artists to be exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in the 60s; where the group was called “The Regina Five” and the name stuck. An innovative and inspiration group of artists and professors that put western Canada on the map of action expressionism at the time. Godwin embraced his creativity and experimented and grew from his time in Regina and continued to create throughout his career until his passing in 2013. This exhibition will celebrate a man that embodied his art and continually was creating. The exhibition will span works from his early years in Regina until his later landscape works in the 2000s.