CV | Artist's statement

Keith Moreau is a freelance artist, illustrator and designer with years of experience. Currently, he primarily works with coloured pencil, pen and ink, scratchboard, and digital art. Earlier work heavily featured printmaking, including screen printing and block printing.

His works have been accepted into juried art shows across the province, winning awards. Twice Keith won the juror's award at the Arts Etobicoke Juried Show, once for a block print, the second time for a scratchboard. Other juried exhibits include the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Art Gallery of Peel, Arts Etobicoke, Artway Gallery Brampton, Streetsville's Rivercrest Gallery, and the Blackwood Gallery at the U of T M. Keith won a Brampton Citizen Award for Arts Acclaim achievement in 1992.

His work has been purchased by numerous private and corporate collections, including Astral Media (through Standard Radio), the William Osler Health Centre (through Peel Memorial Hospital commissions), and the City of Toronto.

Keith has many years of experience teaching various art forms, ranging in length from a short one hour workshop to courses lasting two hours a week for a year.

Over 23 years ago, Keith founded non-profit community art group Visual Arts Brampton, which he continues as President for, and instructs regularly at. As President of VAB, he manages Artway Gallery and Fridge Front Gallery at Shoppers World, as well as the Big Folio Gallery, located in the VAB Creative Studio. For his dedication as an arts administrator, he won a Brampton Citizen Award for Long Term Volunteer Service (1995), life-time member of VAB (1998), and City of Brampton Arts Person of the Year (1992).

Keith is a graduate of the 3-year Design Arts Course with Graphic Design specialty at Georgian College, Barrie. He also has 1-year of Animation from Sheridan College, Oakville and 1/2-year of Technical Illustration at Sheridan College, Brampton.

In 2005, Keith's coloured pencil piece Patriotic Pick-up was accepted into the Canada-wide entry "Art of the Automobile" touring juried art show, held annually by Automobile Journalist's Association of Canada. Since discontinued, the exhibit travelled between auto shows in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

CONTACT Artists listed on the Visual Arts Brampton site can be contacted through the group's studio. Phone 905-453-9142, or email us, and we'll pass the message on.