GEORGE JENKINS

George Jenkins was born at Wilkie, Saskatchewan, in1920 and soon after moved to Lloydminster where he spent his childhood.  After three years in Eastern Canada and overseas with the Canadian Army during World War II, he returned to Lloydminster, eventually moving to Vancouver Island where he worked in logging camps, lumber mills, shipping and other forms of employment.
  During his early years George felt a close affinity with nature which involved a predisposition toward drawing and painting.  He has been drawing and painting casually since 1948.  He has had no formal art training.  In 1963 he began painting part-time and by 1969 was painting fulltime. His pictures are rendered in oil, acrylic, pencil, watercolour, and ink. His style is realism and the subject matter of his paintings is generally landscapes, portrayals of a by-gone era on the Prairies.
  In 1965 George received first prize by public vote in the "Salon des Refugees" in Victoria, British Columbia.  He has shown his work in a dozen solo exhibitions across the Prairie Provinces as well as British Columbia.  In addition, he has exhibited in selected groups exhibiting in Canada and the United States.  His work; also may be found in major collections such as the Mendel Ad Gallery, Saskatoon and Glenbow Museum, Calgary.
  George Jenkin's paintings of the prairies are like sensitively rendered portraits. Every stroke of his brush is important and will be recognized as part of the tapestry that makes up the peculiarities of landscape so dear to the hearts of everyone that knows and loves the prairies.

George currently lives with his wife Ethel in Victoria, British Columbia.