About

Jonathan Forrest was born in Scotland and emigrated to Canada when he was a teenager. He studied painting at the university of Saskatchewan in the early 1980s and it was there that he was introduced to abstraction by Saskatoon artist and teacher Robert Christie. Through Christie he was exposed to artists’ work such as Canadian painter Jack Bush and closer to home, Saskatoon painter William Perehudoff, as well as Christie’s own work. This exposure imprinted on the young artists and the introduction of colour, scale, and paint process formed the groundwork for his later developments and …