Terry Fenton

The imagery in Terry Fenton's paintings is often focused on the large skies and wide open prairies of his home province. In Fenton's words:

"Because of their apparent lack of scenery, the open prairies haven't been much painted by anyone. Even painters who've flourished in Saskatchewan have preferred the river valleys in the plains or the aspen parkland and forest to the north and east. While I admire and have absorbed much from them, I'm drawn south and west to the grasslands, partly because I was born and raised in Regina, but especially because the colour and light there is so luminous."^[11]

Fenton's paintings can be found in a number of collections, including the University of Lethbridge, Alberta; the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia; and the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa.^[13][14]

Fenton's writing on art has touched on subjects both historical and contemporary, from essays on Fayum mummy portraits^[15] and Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in Ecstasy,^[16] to articles on Morris Louis^[17] and Adolph Gottlieb.^[18] Fenton has written a number of books, including monographs on Dorothy Knowles, Reta Cowley,^[19] Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland, as well as his 2009 treatise on pictorial art, "About Pictures."