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
My current paintings analyze forms and spaces, not from a traditional or prescribed point of view, but from an intuitive, visceral one. Internal and external landscapes playing off each other becoming transitory images. My intent is to express, in paint, the illuminating and profoundly moving chaotic forces that provide an unlimited visual pageant.

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:
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

Exhibitions
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
February 7 - March 8, 2009
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
New Landscapes, Jasper Park Lodge
Mountain Gallery, 2001