 Sailboat, 1981 hand-coloured on paper, 22" × 30" |
Tom Forrestall – Artist Biography
Tom Forrestall was born in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia in 1936. He was raised in Middleton and Dartmouth. He started attending art classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.
In 1954 he obtained a scholarship to attend the Fine Arts Faculty at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. In 1958 he received, at graduation, one of the first Canada Council Grants for independent study and travel throughout Europe. In 1960 a Forrestall painting was commissioned by the Province of New Brunswick and presented to H.R.H Princess Margaret on the occasion of Her marriage.
Forrestall's principal media have been egg tempera and watercolour and since 1980, lithography printing. His work has been exhibited in private and public galleries both nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Forrestall's work is also reproduced in major histories of contemporary Canadian art. Tom Forrestall received the Order of Canada in 1986.