Artist. Educator. Communicator. Bon vivant. Born July 23, 1928, in Hartlepool, County Durham, England; died July 14, 2022, in London, Ont., from complications of a stroke; aged 93
Water was always Eric Newton Atkinson’s muse. He was the great-grandson of a harbourmaster of Hartlepool, England, and liked to claim he was also part Viking. His most glorious paintings feature Hartlepool’s docks and cranes and the Tower Bridge in London – or plumb the depths of the Great Lakes. He painted vigorous abstract landscapes into his 90s and attacked the canvas on the floor of his basement studio from four sides.
In 1956, Eric began teaching at Leeds College of Art in a program inspired by the collaborative teachings of the Bauhaus in Berlin, and respected for graduates such as Henry Moore and Dame Barbara Hepworth. Eric and Muriel’s two children, Brigit and Sean, were born in Leeds. Muriel describes Eric as both gentle and passionate about all the things he loved. And this energy was brought on backwoods summer camping trips in Canada and Maine.
Brigit remembers rolling up to the door of a Manhattan hotel en route to a show at the Guggenheim after their tent had been sprayed by a skunk. Their luggage carried an aroma that she called “woodsy.” But Ricky was unfazed thinking only about the fun they were about to have looking at art and seeingAt Fanshawe, Atkinson recruited talent from the United Kingdom and all over, and grew a range of applied arts programs, including filmmaking, Music Industry Arts, Culinary Arts and Landscape Design.
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