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Gordon Rayner
The Evolution of an Abstract Expressionist Gordon Rayner was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter whose creative process was defined by constant innovation and a frequent transformation of his medium. His early training began under his father, a commercial artist, and Jack Bush. Following a period of working in commercial art, Rayner’s direction shifted toward abstraction, influenced by the work of artists such as Willem de Koonin
g and the exhibitions of Painters Eleven. During the late 1950s and the first half of the 1960s, he began to incorporate found materials into his paintings, a practice influenced by the neo-Dada movement. In 1966, Rayner entered a period focused on the Magnetawan area, located north of Toronto. These works served as a space for experimentation with technique and materials, allowing him to refer to nature through oblique references an…