Toffer - a nartist

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Here's the caption. Where's the photo! oil pastel on ingres paper 2007

The name Toffer was given to me back in 1967 after seeing the movie Christopher's Movie Matinee with a number of friends.

The title a nartist was coined by Edward Lear, artist and poet known for the poem The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense verse.

▼ 2008 (2)
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  - ▼ Feb 06 (2)
    - House portrait - Point Grey, Vancouver
    - House portrait - North Vancouver

Bachelor of Fine Art

Nova Scotia College of Art & Design - 1971

Certificate in Advanced Typographic Design

London College of Printing - 1974

Member International Society of Typographic Designers - 1993

Member Graphic Designers of Canada - 1994

I worked for 20 years in London, England with design agencies and as a freelance typographer.

Projects over 20 years included

• 10 years design & layout for the quarterly

Canada Today magazine

• co-ordinating a set of bus timetables

for each of 50 cities in the UK

• Bus map study for London Transport

Clients included

• The Canadian High Commission

• The Post Office

• HMSO

• The Royal Academy

Christopher Stanbury: Vancouver, BC, Canada; Since returning to Canada in 1993, I have returned to painting and illustration. My primary medium is pen and ink. Other media include pencil, water soluable coloured pencil, oil pastel, acrylics, and some water colour. Subject matter is primarialy landscapes, in particular those with an archetectural element. My printmaking includes woodcuts, linocuts, silk screen, intaglio and aquatint. Current speciality: “House Portraits” of peoples homes, both in colour and in pen and ink.