Artist's Biography

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Born 1943 in England and raised in Montreal, Quebec. Ivan Schneider at the age of 4 first began to develop his passion for art through the drawing of war planes. As his imagination grew, by the time of his 7th year, he participated and won an art contest held in New York city. In 1961, Ivan enrolled in the arts programs at L’Ecole Des Art De Montreal, then in 1962 attended The Museum of Fine Arts, and a year later, attended The Montreal Technical Institute of Design. After graduating, Ivan decided to to make the journey to Toronto to enrol at George Brown college where he studied commercial art and advertising, after graduating he was hired to the position of Creative Director to an international toy company. This position place many time constraints on his personal artistic development, spending every free moment he had to pursue his true passion of painting and woodcut. Deriving inspiration from Mexican art’s use of light and colour and applying them to the rural landscapes around him, producing bright and cheerful scenes, and breathing a new life into reality.