Richard Kizner

“I like to paint”. Way back when, I spent hours looking at online artists and reading hundreds of artist statements. This is the only one I can remember. Mine is slightly different -I like to experiment and paint

1978 D.E.C. Major in Creative Arts
1978 Accepted into BFA but chose to do a Bachelor of Business Administration
1981-2002 Print production, sales and marketing
2002-2005 Art Warehouse, Galley owner in Toronto, Ontario
- Purchased, repaired and sold painting and frames originating from China as well as my own
- Painted edges of stretched paintings to create gallery stretched paintings.
- Experimented with pencil, charcoal, oil paints, palette knife, imaginary landscapes, Tube to canvas painting, realism and abstracts.
- One day a group of teenagers came through the store saying “I like this, hate that” etc. They stopped at one of my 24”x36” paintings, pointed and all laughed “What is that doing here!” That same day I sold this painting to a young couple for $300. Not much, but 4X more than the dozens of Made in China 24x36 oil paintings that were in the store. At this point I knew I was getting to where I wanted my paintings to be.
2005-2010 Marketing Director
2010-2012 Experimenting and learning Digital Painting
- Corel Painter and Photoshop (Thank you Jeremy Sutton as your digital art was an inspiration)
- Using a photo as subject matter I experimented with impasto techniques in both oil and acrylic
2012- 2017 E...