Ron Czemeres was born on a farm near Regina, Saskatchewan. He was first inspired artistically by the early 1960’s TV program “John Nagy Learn to Draw”. It was a trip to Banff in 1960 with his parents that really got the artistic juices flowing. His first watercolour sketch was of Mt. Rundle.
Ron is essentially a self taught artist. During high school in Regina, after moving from the farm, he thought that he could become a commercial artist. Somehow that interest changed to Chemical Engineering. Ron moved to Alberta in 1975 to start his career in the oil industry. From time to time Ron would find time to do some painting in his early years of his engineering career, but those paintings were few and far between. It wasn’t until the early 1990’s that Ron started to paint Alberta landscapes on weekends to get his mind off of the difficult times the oil industry was going through during that decade.
It was during that time he saw the paintings of Karl E. Wood and then met his son Robert E. Wood who was just starting his career as a professional artist. It was through Robert that Ron was introduced to the Calgary Sketch Club that he joined in 1996. Ron also served on the Executive of the Calgary Sketch Club in both the role of Secretary and Newsletter Editor. Ron also contributed to the Club’s Memorial Scholarship program at the Alberta College of Art and Design (prior to it becoming a University) and he was involved in winding that program down. Ron was awarded his Life Membership in 2011 and also won the Big Four Award. He is currently on the jury for new member applicants.
Ron retired from engineering in 2010 and started to paint more often. He decided to change his paintings from traditional landscapes done in oil to urban scenes done in acrylics using a more modern style. In 2012 Ron also joined the Federation of Canadian Artists, Calgary Chapter and was awarded an AFCA in 2022. He is currently working towards an SFCA designation. Ron is currently on the show juries of the FCA and is Secretary of the Standards Committee in Vancouver.
Ron Czemeres
Bubbles Car Wash
Chicken On The Way Version 3
Save on Meats
7th Ave LRT Station
Peace Bridge
“Precision has always been a fascination. My works are created entirely from memory, which is unfortunate, because my memory of what a human body looks like is apparently a circle on top with five lines coming out of it.
Through my process I develop original interpretations of the world around me. By simplifying and reducing, I can showcase the essential truth of any subject — that at its core, everything can be expressed in five lines or fewer. My loop-da-loops demonstrate a mastery of the continuous curve. My snowflakes contain multitudes.
So, as you can no doubt tell, I am an artist. Maybe? Probably... Yes, probably.”
— ARTISTS STATEMENT