Douglas Grenville

I was born in Canada and raised in a remote gold mining town in the boreal forest. I began painting from my canoe in the calmest corners of Ice Chest Lake. It is natural that my paintings continue to be inspired by my intimate relationsip with forests and lakes. My paintings are also motivated by our obligate relationship with nature and our fatal neglect and exploitation of it. I am now exploring natural shapes and the physical and chemical reactions which are inherent in all life forms and in the minerals that are contained in watercolours. Each colour reacts with the paper and other colours to form detailed forms which I seek to exploit in my paintings.

I changed from acrylics to watercolours on paper 10 years ago as a more ecological form of painting.

BSc, Laurentian Uiversity, Sudbury, Canada
MSc, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

UBS, Nyon, Switzerland, Origin of Life, 16 August 2021
La Corbière, Water paintings, Estavayer-le-Lac, 2018
Katara, Doha cultural Centre, Qatar, 2011
En Beauregard, Montreux, Switzerland,October 2010
Schilligar, Gland, Switzerland, May 2010
La Cité de Temps, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2010
Qubab Art gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE, February 2010
Residence of the Canadian Embassador to Switzerland, Bern, July 2008
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Haritage, Solo Exhibit, UAE, 2007
"Le Lien" Home de la Jogne, Charmey, Switzerland2004, "Equinox" - Kuriosum, Fribourg, Switzerland2005, "Mains en mains avec les artists", Kuriosum, Fribourg, Switzerland2005, "L'Eveil" - Atelier Boralis, Fribourg, Switzerland2006, "Les Chemins", Hotel Lion d'Ore, Romont, Switzerland2007,
Solo Exhibi at Abu Dhabi Cultural Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE2007,
Vision D'Art Ornans, Ornans, France2009,
En Beauregard, Montreux, Switzerland2010,
Les Tilluels, Monthey, Switzerland2010, "Ecosystems" - Solo exhibit at the Qibab Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE2010,
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland - "Artists au Service de la Paix" on the occassion of the international day of water. ,