Bill brownridge biography

Arriving in Calgary from Vawn, SK in 1953, Bill Brownridge felt intimidated by the idea of entering art college.

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WR Brownridge graduated from the Alberta College of Art (Calgary, Ab., Canada) in Following that he was a professional graphic designer for some 30 years.

Award-winning painter, author and illustrator William (Bill) Brownridge died on May 1 in Victoria, BC at the age of

He worried about the pressure. After all, these city folks were worldly. He worried too about acceptance.

It wasn’t so much because he came from a prairie hamlet but, more to the point, it was because he only had one leg.

In the end, his anxiety proved needless.

“There was a breakthrough at SAIT then — the world there was more open to people being different,” Brownridge recalls.

“I had an interview with [Art Department Head] Illingworth ‘Buck’ Kerr, a famous artist, and I was nervous — then surprised to see he looked like a prairie farmer.

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He smoked roll-your-owns,” Brownridge laughs.

“It was a key moment... It was like a door opening to a whole world, an overwhelming avalanche of exciting ideas and people.”

Brownridge had already overcome so much.

Growing up, he spent hundreds of hours on Vawn’