Artist Info
John Ensor
John Ensor was born in Llanishen, Wales on January 2nd, 1905. His parents moved to Canada when he was a child but he returned to Europe to study art, first in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and then in London at the Polytechnic School of Art before he graduated with a Diploma in Mural Painting and Art History from the Royal College of Art.He emigrated to Canada in 1947 where he established the Ensor Industrial Design Association . He served in the Royal Air army and was an industrial designer and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. In 1967, his painting, Summer Stores, was selected as a 50 Cent Centennial Canada Post Stamp.
In the 1970s, he produced a series of watercolour paintings and coloured pencil sketches of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. These paintings, which are currently in the Beaverbrook Collection of War Art at the Canadian War Museum include scenes of officer cadets in various activities. John Ensor passed away in Saanich BC in 1995.
