Artist: Ted Colyer (b.1947)
Title: Mado (Window)
Date: 1978
Edition: 1st Ed. 45/100
Sig./Seal: Ted Colyer in pencil, dated, titled, 1st Ed. numbered
Condition: Excellent, fine toning/mat line in L and T margins
Size: 17.5 Square                          $695
 
Ted Colyer was born in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1947. Upon graduating from Mt. Allison University in Fine Arts he went to Japan to further his studies in traditional Japanese woodblock techniques. Coyler studied woodblock printing with Toshi Yoshida.
In 1975 he began his professional career as a painter and printmaker and remained in Japan for 17 years. He has exhibited regularly at the prestigious College Women's Association of Japan's annual print show in Tokyo. His works are in the collections of many companies and museums in Canada and Japan, and the Prince and Princess Takamado also own prints by him.
In 1988 he returned to Canada and currently resides in Squamish, B.C.