Terry Fenton (born July 1, 1940) is a Canadian artist,[1] author, critic,[2] and curator[3] known for his landscape paintings,[4] his support of modernist art,[3] and his writing on the work of artists such as Jack Bush, Anthony Caro, Peter Hide, Dorothy Knowles, Ken Macklin, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and William Perehudoff.
Along with studies at the University of Regina (1965-1966), Fenton attended Emma Lake Artist's Workshops in Saskatchewan with John Cage and Lawrence Alloway in 1965, Frank Stella in 1967, and Michael Steiner in 1969.
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.
[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."