L Bruce Ritchie Gallery
A life-long naturalist, Bruce Ritchie's graphic and photographic images have been published since 1959. As a youth, he was a student member of an archaeological expedition to the Yukon Territory, stirring a serious involvement in photography. In 2007 he led the Great FASD Horseback Ride across Canada, from Halifax, NS to Victoria, BC, living under canvas for 4 months and photographing the country from coast to coast. His primary pieces are mixed media impressions created with photography, acrylics and canvas. He has pioneered new imaging technologies and continues to be an innovator. His work has encompassed oil and acrylic painting; digital, 35mm and large format still photography; computer imaging; video; sublimation dye imaging on metals and other materials; sculpture in soapstone, serpentine, metal and wood; jewelry design. He is also a musician. Bruce's original images are digitized and edited using computer tools in the same manner as traditional darkroom techniques, paintbrushes, airbrush, pallet knife, pencils, charcoal, conte crayon and pastels. The mixed media painting is created in archival pigments and acrylics on archival canvas, stretched on stretcher bars. Taking advantage of ambient light transmission, reflection and refraction, the acrylics range from opaque to transparent to bas relief depth to give the image a rich, 3D texture and appearance. The sides are finished in black so the painting can be hung with or without a frame. These mixed media paintings are each unique, original and individually signed by the artist.
