Gordon Milne

Gordon Milne's portraits are as insightful as they are unique. With the broadest of strokes he is able to capture the most intimate of details.

He chooses colours and shapes which cannot help but evoke an immediate emotional response but they do so much more. They compel the viewer to take the same journey into the subject's soul that fascinated Milne and guided his hand and heart.

LOUIS B. HOBSON
The Calgary Sun

A Canadian artist, Gordon Milne was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1953. He attended McMaster University where he majored in printmaking and sculpture and graduated with a BFA in 1974.

Early in his career Milne worked as a printmaker producing original drawings, etchings, woodcuts and linocuts that he exhibited and sold privately to individuals and corporations. During this period he was represented by Highstreet Gallery in Calgary and Paperworks Gallery in Vancouver.

In 1982, while Gordon was in Australia, a devastating flood at Highstreet Gallery ravaged most of his artwork leaving little to show from the 70's. At this transition Milne shifted his attention to graphic design, founding Dream On Art & Design. While operating his design business Milne continued to work quietly and dilige...