About me

Don trained as a singer/conductor at McGill University, conducted in Montreal and Toronto and later co-founded the internationally renowned Music Theatre school at Sheridan College. He served as the Dean of Arts at Sheridan and as Dean of Art & Business at George Brown College.

Retiring early he returned to his love of painting the Canadian landscape focusing on Ontario’s Northland and Quebec and began showing his work in 2004.

He studied painting at DVSA with Professor V. Jane Gordon as well as in Ottawa with the internationally recognized Canadian landscape artist, Gordon Harrison. His principle studio is in Burlington along with a seasonal studio in Lac. Ste. Marie in the Gatineauu region. He works in oil on canvas and board with a brush and palette knife and annually participates in several Toronto and charity art auctions.

Comments:

“Don’s landscapes immediately capture and transport the viewer to the varied environments that he so effortlessly captures. Don’s passion for his art form and life shines through his fantastic work.”

— Rob Cowley, President, Canadian Art Specialist, Consignor Canadian Fine Arts.

Regina Haggo - Art Critic, Hamilton Spectator-

“With a song in his art, Graves’s musical background colours his landscapes.”