Verne Busby CV
Verne Busby has lived and worked most of his life in Edmonton, Alberta. He received his BA in 1972 and Secondary Education Teaching Certificate in1974 from the University of Manitoba. In 1975 he received his permanent British Columbia secondary teaching certificate. Returning to Edmonton he furthered his design experience with studies at Grant McEwan College Design Arts (1977) and the University of Alberta.
In 1981, after several years of agency experience in Edmonton, Verne Busby joined Bella Totino in Totino Busby Design Inc., an independent design and illustration studio. Art and design talent at Totino Busby has attracted a wide range of clientele.
Verne has taught part time at the University of Alberta Faculty of Art and Design, Visual Communications. Verne also moderates life drawing sessions biweekly at the Edmonton Wecan Society, Harcourt House Annex.
Verne’s current works are available for viewing at: www.vernebusby.com

Artist Statement
For years I accepted landscape as having a prescribed look. I live in a country with a strong tradition in the landscape genre. But, I refuse to trade totally in the currency of this established style.
A few years ago "maps.google.com" gave us a radical new view of our familiar space. Similarly the look of my paintings pushed to flatten the planes and create shape associations. Re-inventing the thought of landscape has changed the content of my works, forcing a re-examination of spacial relationships. The painting growth is dependent upon the tension suggested by these shapes.
Painting for me is like magic, what you see is not what you see at first take. The closer you get to the surface the more the picture fades away and the more the artwork is just about paint and texture. Within the marks you can re-engage your subject; recreate a snapshot in time; make a historical observation, or possibly record the glimpse of a current dream.

Artworks
Corporate Client List
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
TELUS
Nortel
C.N.Railways
Fairmont Japer Park Lodge
National Film Board of Canada
Biomira
Provincial Museum of Alberta
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Cantak Corporation, Alberta
ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp., Alberta

Recent studies have included:

2011 THARS foundation
resident artist, Carcross, Yukon
2010 Emma Lake resident artist September, University of Saskatchewan - Kenderdine Campus,
2008 Emma Lake Artist’s residency, University of Saskatchewan - Kenderdine Campus,
2007 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop with Monica Tapp, University of Saskatchewan - Kenderdine Campus, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.
2006 - May: Intensive Studies Seminar, Taos, New Mexico.
2005 - Sept.:River Rock Studios with Brian Atyeo, Cochrane, Alberta.
2005 - May: Intensive Studies Seminar, Taos, New Mexico.

Publications:
Pallet Magazine,
September 07
Edmonton Journal, June 08
Elemente, July ‘08

Works are available at:

In Calgary,
Gibson Fine Arts.

In Vancouver,
Kurbatoff Art Gallery Ltd.

In Saskatoon,
The Rouge Gallery

In Kelowna,
SOPA Fine Arts

In Jasper, Banff, and Whistler,
Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont

In Edmonton
Rowles and Company

Exhibitions:
Forest Show
Leighton Centre, Calgary, July 2011
Peaks
Lougheed House, May, 2011,
Persona Grata
Walterdale Playhouse, Edmonton, May 2011
Building a Mystery
Jubilee Auditorium Gallery, Edmonton, in conjunction with Alberta Ballet inspired by the music of Sarah McLachlan in the Northern & Southern Jubliee Auditoria May, 2011
Impromptu: New Works by Verne Busby & Susana Espinoza
September 2010
Elemental Titanium: 22 Annual
The Works Festival, Edmonton, June 2010
2010 Skin Rouge Gallery, Saskatoon , June, 2010
Wayfarers and Sinners, Jubilee Auditorium Gallery, Edmonton, April 2010
2010 Thespiae, Naess Gallery, Edmonton, March 2010
2010 Go Figure
Studio Gallery, Edmonton, January 2010 Heat of the Moment
The Works Festival, Edmonton, June 2009
A Way Into Place
Profiles Gallery, St.Albert, March 2009
Helicon
The Fringe Gallery, Edmonton, March 2009
Dancing Joni
Jubilee Auditorium Gallery, Edmonton, 2009
Silver Skate
Edmonton City Hall, Edmonton, 2009
OUTSIDE IN
Gibson Fine Arts, Calgary, 2009
Triton and the Nereids
The Works Festival, Edmonton, 2008
Being Human
Leighton Art Centre, Calgary, 2008
Eleusis
Fringe Gallery, Edmonton 2008
Merlo Vinoteca Inc Calgary
New Works, 2007
Hotel Art Recent Works
Hotel Art Calgary, 2006
State of the Art
Edmonton City Hall, 2005
‘Eye Candy’ - Figurative Exhibition, Image 54 Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 2005
Buon Fresco for the 21st Century!
Park Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles 2003
Time after Time Chet Baker
The Exhibition
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, 2003
Return to Olympos:
The Fringe Gallery, Edmonton, 2003
Doing Leonard Cohen
Rice, Theatre Lobby
Citadel Theatre, 2002
Blooming Prairie,
Edmonton Art Gallery,
traveling exhibition, 2001/2002