Art Exhibit by John Collins and Thomas de Souza

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1917, John Collins came to the Montreal region at the age of two. He attended school in Montreal including art studies at L’École des Beaux-Arts and Sir George Williams College. For more than forty years he was editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette and while there illustrated editor Edgar Andrew Collard’s historical column “All our Yesterdays”. His sketches have illustrated five of Mr. Collard’s books. The artist has won two National Newspaper Awards for cartooning and two national watercolour awards. He is an ex-president of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and an honorary member of The Canadian Association of Editorial Cartoonists. A member of The Lakeshore Association of Artists, he has paintings in public and private collections here and abroad.

Thomas de Souza was born in Goa (Portuguese India) in 1933 and studied drawing, painting and sculpture at the Bombay School of Fine Arts. He emigrated to Britain in 1962 and then came to Canada in 1965. Inspired by the works of the Impressionist painters and the beauty drawn from everyday life, Mr. De Souza is best known for his genre landscapes and cityscapes painted in oil from sketches in his studio and directly in nature. He has won juried awards, is a member of the Arts Club of Montreal, the Dorval Artists’ Association and the Lakeshore Artists’ Association of which he was President from 1988-1990. Mr. de Souza's paintings are to be found in galleries throughout North America, in corporate collections such as the Federal Business Development Bank and the cities of Kirkland and Dorval as well as in private collections in Canada, the U.S.A., Israel, India, Japan and France.

The exhibition will open Wednesday, May 16th at 7 p.m

The Dorval Cultural Centre is located at 1401 Lakeshore Drive, Dorval. Information: 514-633-4170.

Gallery Hours: Monday to Thursday 14 :00 to 17:00 and 19:00 to 21:00; Friday to Sunday 14:00 to 17:00.