1. Paterson Ewen was a founding member of the Non-figurative artist's association of Montreal, along with Claude Tousignant, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Guido Molinari, and Marcel Barbeau.
15 Facts About Paterson Ewen
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Paterson Ewen moved to London, Ontario in the late 1960s where London Regionalism was championed by Jack Chambers and Greg Curnoe.
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William Paterson Ewen was born in 1925 in Montreal, Quebec.
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Paterson Ewen studied geology, but after his first year he began to struggle with depression, and sought relief in copying magazine covers and sketching the landscape around Canadian Officers' Training Corps at Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier where he had re-enlisted for the summer.
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When he returned to school in the fall, Paterson Ewen signed up for a figure-drawing course taught by John Goodwin Lyman.
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Paterson Ewen eventually found a position with Sullivan's father as an assistant secretary to the chief administrator at the municipal rent control board, where he remained until taking an employment supervisor position at Bathurst Containers in 1956.
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When Sullivan and Paterson Ewen separated in 1966, Paterson Ewen again grappled with depression.
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Paterson Ewen then went to Westminster Veteran's Hospital in London, Ontario.
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Paterson Ewen felt that the treatment he received was helpful and that it restored him to "a state of good physical and mental health," though he continued to struggle with his mental health and his relationship to alcohol.
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Paterson Ewen went on to teach at H B Beal Secondary School until he was awarded a Canada Council grant in 1971.
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When Paterson Ewen returned to Toronto, his Beal Secondary job had gone to someone else, but there was an opening at the University of Western Ontario.
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Paterson Ewen showed very little until 1955, when he began exhibiting abstract works.
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In 1971 Paterson Ewen moved to London, and there found inspiration in the growing London Regionalism movement, which emphasized specificity of place and time.
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Paterson Ewen used a router to tear into the surface, sometimes re-attaching objects to the plane with hardware.
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Paterson Ewen worked on many series in this mode, returning again, and again to the ever-changing natural world.