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Ted Nasmith - Tolkien Illustrator and Architectural Renderer
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My Life
I was born in Goderich, Ontario, in the mid-fifties. My father was in the Canadian Air Force, stationed in nearby Clinton. My first memories, though, date from a three-year stay in France, in a town called Longuyon near Marveille, on the German border, where our family lived while my father was stationed there. As a young child, the memories of those times made a strong impression on me as we traveled around the nearby countries during holidays and vacations. Among these special memories are a trip to the famous Miniature Village in The Hague, the Zoo in Rotterdam, Holland, as well as one to Le Parc Marveilleuse, a kind of fairy tale park; the latter is long gone now, I suspect.
Like that of many Canadians, my childhood involved a series of moves, and in the mid-sixties we moved into the Toronto suburb of Don Mills. When I came to enter high school, I was advised to enroll in a commercial art program I hadn’t known existed. Prior to this I’d assumed in general that my habit of drawing constantly was an elaborate hobby at best! During those formative years, I would spend hours drawing pictures, mostly of spaceships or airplanes or battles. Whatever stresses were being endured on the outside were mitigated by drawing and other creative pursuits.
High school training in various art subjects provided me with an excellent learning environment, and I gained much confidence in my abilities. In my third year, on my sister’s recommendation, I discovered J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, her high school friends being much into Tolkien. That became an immediate new focus for me. After graduation, I soon landed a job as an apprentice architectural renderer. I got the job by showing a flair for this type of illustration, though it was not something I’d studied previously. The small studio was run by a designer turned renderer, and I joined him and one other artist. Here I was taught much about my profession, working there for several years before deciding to carry on in a free lance capacity after the studio was dissolved. Though my work, especially in terms of the Tolkien art, has since diversified, I still have a hand in architectural rendering.
Contact
- Ted Nasmith
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- ON
- CA L3P 3A9
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- 9054728656
