| Ansgard Thomson
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| Box 8 Fort Assiniboine
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| T0G 1A0 Fort Assiniboine
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| Canada
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I was born in 1923 in Silesia, Germany. The part of Germany is Polish today. I grew up surrounded by art. My father painted in watercolors and my uncle was a well-known Silesian painter in oils, my brothers and sisters were also exploring art in one form or another, we were 7 children. I claim that my early influences gave me a lifelong interest in art. My secret desire to enter an art school was not practical at that time (wartime) I entered nursing instead. After losing everything at the end of the war, the attachment to art became very strong (when everything lost its values the artists spoke an appealing language).I socially entered the art circles in Germany and later in Paris, where I worked for 10 years. I immigrated to Canada in 1959. I married in 1970 Walter F.Thomson an Agrologist after working in Edmonton for 11 years.
We moved to the farm in Fort Assiniboine in 1972.While working as a coordinator for the Fort Assiniboine Museum and Recreational Planning I came in contact with local art teacher Margaret Nadeau .As a founding member of a local art club I joined the provincial A.C.A.C.A (Alberta Community Arts Club Association) .I explored pen and ink, acrylics, watercolors, oils, mixed media and colored pencil and later computer art. My first interest was historical illustration, due to my work for the museum.
As a traditional painter in traditional media I started using the computer to generate art on the computer since 1993. Attracted by the new media and the many programs one could find on the Internet to explore the differences as well as the similarities to the natural way of making art My choices of programs were related to my aim to produce 2D works .
In 1997 I designed my first home page and ventured on the Internet. I still have no commercial site, but had very many invitations to show my art in virtual galleries around the globe.
I joined the artist den in New Mexico and had over 5000 hits to one of my traditional paintings. I also made my first friends sharing my interests to dedicate my goal and energy towards creating digital art.
In Sept 1997 I added a Digital Camera "Mavica" from Sony to my tools. This has given me a great opportunity to get photographs faster into the computer.
November 1998: I have added a Wacom Intuos pen to my tools, so my collection of my traditional works on canvas or paper will only be shown on demand or to make a point of comparison
2000 After long search for producing archival prints .I am now able to print limited editions ( limited to 5 prints on high quality archival papers in my own studio) on demand.
Resume as a traditional painter.
Art Education:
My highschool art courses in Germany made me aware of my interest in the arts and helped me to understand my own abilities.
Formal instruction in arts I received by courses taken by the further education courses prepared by instructors of the Extention Department of the University of Alberta over a long period of time between 1980- I have taken advanced courses in Westlock 1988-89,U.of A.Extension . 1993 last course taken.
My home page has several galleries showing samples of my work.I am able to print
archival prints in my own studio.
My Biodata can be found on my website with the lasted news of my activities as a digital artist
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