Christopher Kovacs

Christopher Kovacs was born in Toronto in 1964, and lived in Richmond Hill, Kingston, Edmonton, and Boston, before settling in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1997. Displays of talent as a child led to enrolment in twice weekly instruction in fine art beginning in grade 5, under the mentorship of Dutch artist William Wegman. This apprenticeship continued for eight years until Wegman’s death in 1983. He later received a year of instruction from artist Christopher Broadhurst at Queen’s University in Kingston. He began selling his first works on commission in the early 1980s and progressed in 2002 to selling paintings through his website.

Much of his work over the past 28 years has featured scenes of rural and coastal Newfoundland, with each image accompanied on his website by researched details about the culture and history of the area, or a description of how he came to create the painting. Through his travels across five continents, he has also added scenes from other countries. His paintings have been sold to collectors around the globe.

In 2008, his painting of Green Gables House in PEI was selected for three national/international distinctions in association with the 100th anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables. It...