STEPHEN R. PURDY

EDUCATION:
● Bachelor of Architecture Degree , Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1992, Entrance Scholarship
● Self taught painter.

EXPERIENCE:
2025
● Rosebud Paint Out, Third place award winner, Rosebud.
● Leighton Plein Air Competition, First place award winner, Millerville.
● Selected participant in group of 10 Banff Inn Artist in Residence.
● Group of 8 Finalists in the Canada Paints Plein Air Competition, Calgary.
● Selected participant in the Calgary Stampede Art Gallery.
● Selected participant in Leighton Art Centre Clothesline Art Sale.
● Juried member of Route 22 Gallery, Cochrane Alberta. (4 years)
● Workshop Instructor for multiple classes in studio and plein-air events.

2024
● Calgary Arts Development $5000 artist development award.
● Selected participant in the Calgary Stampede “Mini-Masterpieces” gallery.
● Selected participant in Town of Canmore juried art show “Circles and Spheres”.
● Instructor of Plein Air painting workshop at Glenbow Ranch provincial park.
● Juried member of the Leighton Centre “Clothes Line Art market sale”
● Self directed Icefields parkway painting series and sales.
● Watercolor painting series of Maritime Provinces.
● Victoria, B.C plein air painting series.
● Participant in Banff Inn Artist in Residence program.
● Participant in “Come Paint Alberta’ series and sales. (2 years)
● Demonstration painter at the Stockman’s Memorial Foundation: Bunkhouse Bonanza, Cochrane.

2023
● First place at Leighton Centre ‘Paint the Foothills’ Plein Air Competition.
● Selected artist for showing at the Quentin Doolittle Memorial Gallery Exhibit: Beautiful Creatures, Calgary.
● Participant in “Art in the Open” plein air festival, Wexford, Ireland.
● Demonstration painter at the Stockman’s Memorial Foundation: Bunkhouse Bonanza, Cochrane.

2022
● Juried member of Route 22 Gallery, Cochrane Alberta.
● Juried member of Leighton Art Centre ‘Come Paint Alberta’.
● Member juror for Route 22 Gallery.
● First place recipient at Rosebud Plein Air Paint-out event.
● Leighton Art Centre ‘Festive in the Foothills’ member showing.
● Invite only salon showing at Leighton Art Centre ‘Festive in the Foothills’.

1992-2021
● Responsible for visual design integrity of building exteriors and interiors.
● Compositional and colour design of building elevations of many commercial and institutional buildings.
● Architectural renderings, site plans, elevations and perspectives.
● Architectural sketches.