Collection: Thomas Chatfield

(1921-1999)

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Chatfield studied at the Northern Technical School and took evening classes at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. He started as a portrait painter but later painted many landscapes of Northern Ontario, in particular in Haliburton Heights. Known as an Abstract Realist, Chatfield worked mainly in oil and acrylic where he used a palette knife and thick, dark paint to outline many of his images creating his very own unique style of landscape painting.