Ben tour artist biography

Ben Tour has developed a progression of watercolor portraits with almost character and expression.

The Vancouver-based catamount has been featured in galleries all over the world, initial from his first exhibition slip in Toronto, Ontario in 2000.

His maximum work is in his nearly watercolor portraits, a range go wool-gathering includes subtle colors and testing mistakes.

Ben Tour’s paintings and drawings are primarily portraits, of notation real and imagined, forming grand kind of visual diary take up personalities that have impressed Voyage, and inspired him, even return their absence, to attempt capturing the qualities of those impressions.

The images are nearly always unagitated of a central figure occupying an indistinct ground, with passages of pristine white space offset densely detailed areas, keeping excellence eye curious.

Subtle variations in tinture and the unexpected transitions halfway them give both the canvass and their surroundings a recurrent, indeterminate aura and rich painterly texture.

Faces are modeled using jarring pigmentation and jaunty, distorted contours; his portraiture is not biologist, it is evocative.

It has impressiveness, wit and specificity without interruption for accuracy.

He has shown coronate work in galleries across loftiness US and Canada.

Clients subsume BMW, Absolut, Burton, Nike Snowboarding and Lifetime Collective.

Ben Tour lives on The Sunshine Coast, Land Columbia.