Ed Bartram
Ed Bartram (March 21, 1938 – August 25, 2019), also known as Edward or Ted Bartram, was a Canadian artist who was known for capturing the rockscape of Georgian Bay through printmaking, painting and photography. Career Ed Bartram, born in London, Ontario, had a B.A., University of Western Ontario and an M.A. Art & Archeology, University of Toronto; but was largely self-taught as an artist. He had help in learning about painting and the processes of printmaking from many individuals. Among them, he counted Herb Arris from whom he took evening classes at H. B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario (1958), Vera Frenkel at the University of Toronto (1960) and Telesforas Valius at Central Technical School, Toronto (1965–1968), with both of whom he studied etching. J. C. Heywood advised him on creating tonal effects in the 1970s. In the 1950s, on a canoe trip to Georgian Bay with his friends, he discovered Bartram Island (named after him in 1991) which he bought around 1965. Although in the 1960s, he had experimented with what he learned from Frenkel and Valius, making abstract prints and paintings, around 1970, on the island, he had a revelation. In Georgian Bay, he was surrounded