About Ingeborg Raymer
However, the luminosity of the colour and the glow of the oil paint lit the flame which would propel Ingeborg towards a new career in the arts. Classes in Painting, first at Night School, then with a private teacher followed. And, when Douglas College opened in 1970, Ingeborg enrolled in a full-time course in Fine Arts which included: Drawing from Life, Painting, Ceramic Sculpture, Design, History of Art, Philosophy and English Literature which led to an Associate in Arts Degree in 1973. Studies in Intaglio Printmaking followed at Capilano College and Emily Carr College of Art and Design on Granville Island.
Ingeborg also pursued studies in Portraiture with Maria Gabankova and eventually taught Portraiture and ran Life drawing Workshops at the Burnaby Arts Centre, now Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Ingeborg founded the Burnaby Artists' Guild, joined Suite E Artists, became a member of Malaspina Printmakers, then Dundarave Print workshop, later she became a Session Manager for Basic Inquiry - Vancouver Life drawing Society.
Following a civic strike that closed public facilities, Ingeborg started teaching art classes in her own studio, which she continues to do so even now. For years now Ingeborg has specialized in teaching Art to young people aged 10 - 18 years. Her enthusiasm for the arts carries the students to be enthused and happy when they are painting.
Following a civic strike that closed public facilities, Ingeborg started teaching art classes in her own studio, which she continues to do so even now. For years now Ingeborg has specialized in teaching Art to young people aged 10 - 18 years. Her enthusiasm for the arts carries the students to be enthused and happy when they are painting.
Ingeborg has had 33 Solo Shows since 1977 and participated in numerous juried and travelling exhibitions nationally and internationally. Ingeborg's paintings and etchings are contained in the collections of the Shell Oil Company, the Burnaby Art Gallery, the Judah L. Magnus Museum in Berkeley, Cal., USA, the Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada. and private collectors.
Ingeborg founded the Burnaby Artists' Guild in 1970 of which she is an honorary Lifetime Member and was awarded the same honour by Suite E Lifedrawing Group of which she has been a member for c. 30 years and held many positions including Model Co-ordinator. The Federation of Canadian Artists awarded Ingeborg the "Harry & Peggy Evans Award" for her Etching in 2004. There are numerous other prizes for her Etchings. And -- though she was not well enough to attend -- Ingeborg was chosen to represent Canada at the Biennale 2005 in Arad, Rumania. And, in Dec. 2005 she received the Diploma di Merito from the Galleria D'Arte Moderna "Alba", Ferrara/Italy. On May 31st, 2006 Ingeborg was made an Academicieene Associee d'Art" by the Accademia del Verbano/Italy. Ingeborg's paintings & etchings have been published in the Arts Avenue Magazine, The Vancouver Sun, the 2006 Calendar of Artists of the Vancouver Lifedrawing Society and the Dizionario Enciclopedico Internazionale D'Arte Moderna E Contemporanea 2005/06 and, most recently and frequently in the Burnaby Now. Ingeborg's Portraits, etchings, paintings and drawings have been sold widely locally, nationally and internationally. Though now 87 years old, Ingeborg works daily in her studio and attends a minimum of two Lifedrawing sessions (drawing from the nude model) twice weekly. Her life is fulfilled by her connection to and love for art: drawing, painting and classical music.
Visits to her studio are welcome by appointment only.
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Ingeborg Raymer, born and educated in Dresden Germany, then immigrated to Vancouver, B.C., Canada in 1952. While spending a summer in Banff, Alta. in the early 60’s she became so inspired by the beauty of the Canadian Rockies that she started sketching the landscape in Charcoal attracting comments by onlookers. Returning to the Vancouver area, Ingeborg added coloured paper and pastel crayons to her palette to paint Goldie Lake, Mystery Lake, and other murky ponds and meadows. Most locations were mosquito-infested., but her small sketches displayed either on site or in the Lodge, were easily sold. And soon Ingeborg was carrying a big pack-sack filled with a palette, oil paints, bristle brushes, turpentine, and canvas as she hiked up rocky cliffs to the vistas near the top of Mt. Seymour. Insects stuck on the canvas added textire to the oil paintings, making them unique
