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ABOUT THE ARTIST |
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| “Beyond God given talent and
technical ability, I feel an artist’s challenge is to
evoke emotion…to try and capture a fleeting moment in
the mood of any subject. My goal is to capture the
character of animals at certain moments of their
instinctive gestures…to try and convey to the viewer a
bit of what that particular animal is feeling at that
precise moment.” |
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A childhood interest
in drawing foreshadowed his artistic future. Lino Grifone
was born in Santo Stefano, Italy in 1956 and is the oldest of
two sons. Shortly after immigrating to British Columbia, Canada
with his mother and father he discovered he had a natural
ability to draw at a very young age and has always taken his
talent very seriously. His grandfather also had a very
strong gifting in painting as well.
"I realized that this
was part of my heritage, and that's what inspired me to try my
hand at painting". Lino began painting, but soon turned to
taxidermy and then sculpture because he felt that working
three-dimensionally better expressed his creativity and love for
animals. "It became an obsession as far back as I can
remember. I loved it, I breathed it, and it was part of
who I was growing up. I remember having this insatiable
addiction to create; this addiction still fuels me today and is
what continues to drive me to be the best artist that I am
capable of becoming." I thank God always for His
gift, the inspiration that could only come from
Him. |
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