Bertram Charles (BC) Binning - Artist Info

About Bertram Charles (BC) Binning

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B C (Bertram Charles) Binning, Bertram Charles
  • Biography

    Bertram Charles Binning (AKA: B.C. Binning) was a draughtsman, painter, graphic artist, muralist, architectural decorator, printmaker and influential educator who was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. In 1913 his family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, which is where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He died in West Vancouver, which is where his home was for the last 35 years of his life. (1)

    His mediums were pen and ink, graphite, coloured pencil, gouache, oil (2), acrylic, silkscreen, mosaic tiles and mixed mediums. His subjects were boats, the sea, nautical elements and coastal scenes. He also did pure abstraction and semi abstraction. His ultimate subjects were spatial ide...

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