Unity Bainbridge OBC

OBC

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, (b. 1916) is a Canadian art

Canadian art

Canadian art refers to the visual as well as plastic arts originating from the geographical area of contemporary Canada...

ist and writer

Canadian literature

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 of poetry inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those historical peoples. They are now situated within the Canadian Province of British Columbia and the U.S...

 and its landscape.

Education

Bainbridge studied in Vancouver at the then newly formed Vancouver School of Art under the Group of Seven

Group of Seven (artists)

The Group of Seven, sometimes known as the Algonquin school, were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920-1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael , Lawren Harris , A. Y. Jackson , Franz Johnston , Arthur Lismer , J. E. H. MacDonald , and Frederick Varley...

's Frederick Varley

Frederick Varley

Frederick Horsman Varley, also known as Fred Varley , was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists.-Early life:Varley was born in Sheffield, England. He studied art in Sheffield and in Belgium...

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Career

Bainbridge, in the early 1930s treked through a vast area of British Columbia's remote wilderness. She preferred to work alone and shunned most art groups. She was invited to join the Canadian Portrait Academy as a Founding Academician, but declined this offer.

Throughout her career she continued to work in graphite and watercolours as her primary medium often adding poetic titles if not full poems about the subjects she was depicting.