Canadian Artist, David Dawson featured at Tay River Gallery

<body> <h1><font face="verdana">Biography: David Dawson</font></h1> <div align="left"> <h4><font size="2" face="Arial">About the Artist</font></h4> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">David Dawson was born in 1933 on a farm near Huntington, Quebec, and grew up on another farm on the Vermont border near the town of Sutton, in Quebec's eastern Townships.</font></p> <font size="2" face="Arial">He remembers as a small boy, listening to his mother recite the poems of <a title="Information about Robert Service" href="http://www.robertwservice.com/" target="_blank">Robert Service</a>, and knew by heart at the age of six, one poem in particular, "The Cremation of Sam McGee". He became familiar with Robert Service and <a title="Information about William Henry Drummond" href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/garvin/poets/drummond.html" target="_blank">William Henry Drummond</a> (the poet of the Habitant), at the age of 15 while working in a machine shop in Port St. Charles on Montreal's waterfront. He marvelled at the way they could put a story into a few short lines and make the rhyme. In later years, David took several of Mr. Drummond's poems and, sitting down with his guitar, put them to music.</font> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">David is a retired "telephone man" living near Sharbot Lake, Ontario, in a renovated "one room" schoolhouse on the old "Bell Line" road (which is depicted in his poem <a title="House on the Old Bell Line by Dave Dawson" href="http://www.urbanmarket.com/all-about-perth/artisan/OldBellLine.html" target="_blank">House on the Old Bell Line</a>). He is an accomplished landscape painter and sketch artist, and has been for over thirty years.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">He also composes poetry and writes and performs songs. Many of his poems became the lyrics to one of his music compositions.</font></p> <div align="left"></div> <p align="left">Updated:<csobj w="72" h="20" t="DateTime" locale="00000409" format="ShortDate" region="0">10/18/2007</csobj> Copyright 2007 <a title="Tay River Galler Home" href="http://www.tayrivergallery.com/index.html" target="_blank">Tay River Gallery</a></p> </div> </body>