Clive Roberts

Mr. Roberts was born in Argyle, Nova Scotia and now lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

He studied art at Mount Allison University under Lawren Harris Jr. and Alex Colville, graduating in 1951 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and in 1969 with a Bachelor of Education. In 1952 Mr. Roberts was engaged to run an art program for elementary schools in Fredericton, New Brunswick and stayed to see programs developed at the Junior High and High School levels. When New Brunswick schools were consolidated into districts he became Art Co-ordinator for Districts 26 and 27.

In 1981 he retired from his position to devote more time to painting, mainly in the watercolour medium. Mr. Roberts has exhibited in group shows in Fredericton and Moncton, New Brunswick, including the New Brunswick Bi-centennial Exhibit and the Marion McCain Juried Exhibitions (1987, 1989, 1991) at the Beaverbrook Gallery, and the 1989 Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour in Toronto. He has had solo exhibitions at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton and At the Sign of the Whale Gallery in 1987, 1992 and 2004 (on the occasion of his 85th birthday). In 1989 Mr. Roberts received the Crowell Ecclesiastical Award for design of a church tapestry for the Brunswick Street Baptist Church, Fredericton on the occasion of its 175th anniversary.

His work is represented in the Province of New Brunswick Permanent Collection, in the collection of the University of New Brunswick, and in private and corporate collections throughout Canada.