CLAUDIO D’ANGELO

In the years following high school, I studied illustration and graphic design, which led me into a career as an illustrator in the field of advertising. During this period I would spend time on evenings and weekends, honing my painting skills which was fuelled by a profound fascination for animals and their world. Then within a few short years, no longer willing to repress my true desire, I turned the page and dedicated myself fully to painting. In my work I strive to put down on canvas an intimate view of nature where the animal subject and landscape are harmoniously integrated by paying particular attention to the ever-changing ways that sunlight plays on fur, feathers and the landscape. Each of my paintings is often the product of multiple experiences in the field, distilled into one image that best communicates that which I have found so moving.​

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My work is represented in numerous private and corporate collections in Canada, the US and Europe. It has been profiled in magazines and showcased in several art books. Over the years I have designed numerous coins for the Royal Canadian Mint, and painted images that have appeared on conservation stamps and prints. My paintings have been exhibited at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Wyoming, the Algonquin Art Center in Ontario, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconson as well as the Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont. In 2012, the Centre Culturel Yvonne L. Bombardier in Valcourt, Quebec held a retrospective exhibition of my work spanning 30 years. I currently live in Pierrefonds, Quebec.

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