landscape paintings, winter mountain scenes and forest wilderness creek paintings of nova scotia artist j. thomas hinton.
What did I do before I became a full time professional artist?

The short answer; a lot of things.
The long answer is that I’ve done most everything from being a janitor to publisher of my own paper. Beyond and in between I’ve worked in construction, driven cabs and trucks, cooked pizzas and flipped burgers. I’ve been an art director, a DJ for a pirate FM station and the chef of a pub/restaurant. I’ve played guitar on a country CD (jazz would have been my preference), collected unemployment, worked as a bindery person as well as a pressman, laid out newspapers and printed them. I’ve painted signs, airbrushed cars, motorcycles and vans, designed logos, record labels and billboards, chased women, drank a lot, and many other things which I have intentionally forgotten. Makes for an awful resume, that’s why I’m an artist.
My thanks to Herbert Ponting for letting me use his photograph and more thanks to Captain Scott for letting me use his room in Antarctica, sorry I drank all your wine...
Although born in New Brunswick, I have also lived in various places across Canada including British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and currently, Nova Scotia. My travels as a Canadian landscape artist have taken me through most other provinces as well as the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. Originally trained as a commercial artist I later moved into fine art full time exploring many mediums from gouache to oil and watercolour.

I have always had a never ending passion for the great Canadian outdoors, and in an effort to both experience it and capture it in paintings, I have managed to make time to canoe every lake, river and stream that I could find, wipe out in rapids, raft through perilous river chasms, hike up mountains and when there was a road, drive to the top of other ones.
I’ve camped in every season in places as diverse as the wide open prairies, the pacific sea coast, the rocky Canadian Shield and the barren High Country, better known as Grizzly Territory. I’ve run into bears, run away from skunks, been chased by bulls, buffalo and elk, been bitten by ugly spiders, attacked by angry hawks and sniffed by a curious cougar, and, I’ve enjoyed them all, except the bull and the buffalo, especially the buffalo.
I’ve tried to explore every old path and logging road I’ve ever seen and met the most interesting and incredible characters in the middle of nowhere from boneheads to book authors. However, most importantly, I’ve had the chance to see a lot of this great country from every angle and as a result I’ve painted images from most of the provinces, the Northwest Territories as well as the Yukon.
I hope you have enjoyed this small glimpse of some very special places I have been, and, through the eyes of this artist come away with at least some of the feelings I have endeavoured to impart.

Corporate Collections

AGT Limited
Alberta Art Foundation
Alberta Cattle Association
Alberta Treasury Branches
Alberta Wheat Pool
Banff Mineral Springs Hospital
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Dunlop Canada
Esso Resources
Holy Cross Hospital
Inverness Petroleum
Parks Canada
Revenue Canada
Senator Patrick Burns Family Shelter
Webster Galleries Calgary Alberta

 Organizations Receiving Donations

Akiva Jewish Academy
Alberta Ballet
Banff Public Library
Calgary Food Bank
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter
Children's Wish Foundation
Glenbow Museum Art Lotto
South Shore Regional Library
Theatre Calgary
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Organizations, Associations and Society Memberships:
I would like to mention that I am not currently a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA), the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (CSPWC), the Amercian Society of Contemporary Artists (ASCA), the Oil Painters of America (OPA), the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) or the Alberta Society of Artists (ASA), nor am I affiliated with CUPE, the CAW or any politcal party. I have never even purchased an extended warranty.

I have never received the Order Of Canada other than a nasty phone call ordering me to pay my taxes. I have not been bestowed with an Honourary Degree in Fine Arts, unless perhaps I have but it’s still out in the mailbox, I’ll check later.

My paintings are not in the Collection of the Canadian Government, nor do they hang in the Royal Collection of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, as far as I know anyway.

While there may be, at this moment, a large lineup outside my front door begging me to join these various organizations and give them money such that I may put their initials after my name or add my work to their collections so far I have ignored them and continue to sneak out the back door.

J.Thomas Hinton Landscape Paintings
792 Ohio Rd. R.R.#4 New Germany Nova Scotia Canada B0R 1E0
email:artist@jthomashinton.com