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Margaret Lindsay Holton

May 03, 2024

Margaret Lindsay Holton is a Canadian artist primarily known for her 'naive-surreal-folk-abstracts' oil and acrylic paintings, pinhole photography, short documentary film productions, poetry and literary novel works.

Margaret Lindsay Holton
Born (1955-04-04) 4 April 1955 (age 69)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Occupation(s)Artist, designer, author, filmmaker
Years active1978–present
Websitecanadadaphotography.blogspot.ca

Holton is the winner of the K.W. Irmisch 'Arts Person of the Year' Award in 2016 from the City of Burlington. In 2018, she received the Alumni of Influence award by University College, University of Toronto and was nominated for the Premier of Ontario Arts Award.

Biography edit

Early life and education edit

Originally from the rural district of north Burlington Ontario, Holton attended primary school at Hillfield Strathallan College in Hamilton, and public high school at M. M. Robinson High School in Burlington, before completing a 4 year English Literature Major/Philosophy Minor B.A at the University of Toronto. Her third year at university was spent at the University of Edinburgh, where she focused on the history of the English Language.[citation needed]

While in Scotland, she traveled to the Outer Hebrides on a walk-study tour of the islands. She traveled through northern Ireland and stayed at a rented croft cottage on the west coast. She also traveled through eastern Russia, exploring the cities of Leningrad and Moscow. After this third year of study, she toured western Europe.[citation needed]

Returning to Toronto, Canada, Holton began a succession of jobs in the Canadian publishing and film industry, including: Assistant Editor at Andrew Marshall's FM GUIDE Magazine;[1] proof-reader and typesetter at Typesettra-Fotocomp[2] under type designer, Les Usherwood; sales rep of T.H.Best Book Binding & Printing[3] and Production Assistant at Roseanne McWaters Vin Lint and Associates, a commercial film production house in downtown Toronto.[citation needed]

Career edit

In 1978, Holton registered her design business, MLH Productions, under which she has undertaken a number of artistic ventures. Holton is a designer of Canadian fine furniture and typefaces. She is also the author of twelve book works of poetry, prose, social history & photography. She has produced and performed for three musical CDs - Summer Haze (2014) (jazz piano), CANADADA: TAKE TWO (2017) (spoken word & electro-pop) and 'GROUP THINK' (2020). In 2015, she produced, directed and wrote a classic Canadian WW1 film, The Frozen Goose.[4]

Holton is a pinhole and photo-collage photographer. Holton makes all of her own pinhole cameras from found cardboard boxes and tins. She hand-processes the negatives and prints in editions of one to five. All authentic MLH prints are signed, numbered and dated by her. She began pinholing in 2001 after taking a two-hour pinhole course with pinholer, Di Bos.[5] Her pinhole works have been exhibited at the Homer Watson Public Art Gallery[6] of Kitchener, Ontario, and Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario, and the Sovereign House Museum of Oakville (managed by the Bronte Historical Society).[7] In August 2010. The Art Gallery of Burlington published an exhibition monograph to the exhibition with an essay by Canadian author, David Macfarlane.

Canadian documentarian, Peter Wintonick O.C, wrote the foreword for the exhibition companion hard-cover book, Memory's Shadow: Pinhole & Photo-Collage Photography by Margaret Lindsay Holton. The title was reviewed by Jeff Mahoney, art critic for The Hamilton Spectator, who wrote, "Memory's Shadow confirms our impression of Holton as an important mixed-media practitioner, with a genuine artist's eye and a probing intellect."[8]

Painting edit

Holton’s paintings are "naive-surreal-folk-abstracts", a descriptive moniker that demonstrates how her work falls outside of traditional and current 'art schools'. Nature, environmental themes and planet Earth predominate in her work. Canadada: A Painter's Nature, published by Acorn Press Canada, accurately describes and illustrates her 40 year career of painting in oils and acrylics.

She has participated in over one hundred group exhibitions in Canada, the US and Europe and participated in solo and studio tours over the past two decades. Holton is a former member of the Women's Art Association of Canada, the Women's Art Association of Hamilton,[9] the Fine Arts Society of Milton,[10] and The Arts & Culture Collective of Burlington.[11]

Holton moved her home and studio from Southern Ontario to Eastern Ontario in June 2023. In January, 2024, she will become an Associate Member of the Thousand Island Fine Art Association (TIFAA).

Type design edit

In 1979, Holton designed the 'Lindsay' (TM) typeface. Hand-drawn pencil templates were supplied to Letraset England in a license for the dry transfer 'letter' market. "Lindsay' was one of the first typeface designs to be digitized using Peter Karow's innovative IKARUS system. The 'Lindsay' typeface was used in collaboration by both Letraset and URW++ of Hamburg, Germany, as a 'demo font' to demonstrate IKARUS's capabilities in the early 1980s.[12]

'Lindsay' was also used as the defining font for the popular board game, Carcassonne.

Holton has completed two other typeface designs, Gato and CANADA. Neither of these designs has been released to the public. They remain as 'pencil drawings' within her oeuvre of work.

Writing edit

Holton studied English literature at the University of Toronto, and produced her first written works in the 1980s. She began her first novel, Economic Sex, while working as an English tutor in Spain in 1984. This literary work was published by Coach House Press of Toronto, under pen-name, Ali Janna Whyte, in 1985.

She produced and edited 'The Spirit of Toronto: 1934-1984', a compendium of essays by religious leaders of 45 different faiths highlighting multiculturalism in Toronto. Launched at Fort York, a hard copy was presented to the Pope's personal secretary.

Holton registered her artist's press, Acorn Press Canada,[13] in Ontario, in 1997. As a writing artist, she published her second novel, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous, (1999), as well as two books of poetry, On Top of Mount Nemo (2002), and Bush Chord, (2006, with an e-edition in 2012) under her artists' imprint. The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous novel won the Hamilton Arts Council[14] 'Best Fiction Award' in 1999. Her third novel, TRILLIUM, was self-published and released in October 2018. In June 2020, the second edition of 'The Gilded Beaver' was released on Amazon in an ebook format, identifying the author, Margaret Lindsay Holton and her client, Toronto financier Gordon H. Eberts, as the owner of the signature 'Four Canadian Fireside Chairs'. Those chairs were designed and fabricated by MLHolton. A paperback edition was released in August. In September 2021, Holton released 'Sticks and Stones: Ten Canadian Short Stories', succinctly reviewed in The Bay Observer by Robert Steven, ex-CEO of the Art Gallery of Burlington.[15]

Fine furniture design and construction edit

Holton apprenticed with her father, Luther Janna Holton (1922-2002), cabinetmaker and sole-proprietor of Holton Fine Furniture of Hamilton before going into business for herself in 1986 as a Canadian fine furniture designer in Toronto under 'MLH Productions'.

Her furniture works can be found in national public and international private collections, including the Royal Ontario Museum, (curio box & display cabinets), the Canadian Film Centre, (library reception), Stanley Ho of Hong Kong (bedroom & dining room suite), David C.W. MacDonald of Toronto ('Temagami' pedestals, 'Wolf Settee Courting Bench' & 'Thee Mirror), Rosamond Ivey of Toronto (bedroom suite) and Elizabeth Hanson of Toronto (children beds).

The Hanson commission of 'three children's beds designed by MLH' was published in 'Furniture: Architects & Designers Originals'[16] by Carol Soucek King, MFA, PhD in 1994. Holton and Frank Gehry were the only Canadians honoured in this publication about international furniture designers.

One commission, 'The Four Canadian Fireside Chairs' was the subject of her second novel, The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous.

Filmmaking edit

Holton began working in film with Jane Walker Manchee,[17] as co-producer, director, writer and sound recordist for their first 54 min documentary, In the Eye of the Hunter (1984-1986). The film was broadcast on Cable 10, Toronto, for six months in a late night spot.

Over the last 20 years, Holton has created over forty additional short documentary films, under 15 minutes each. In 2015, Holton's film & photographic works were shown in The World's Shortest Film Fest, as part of the Niagara Film Festival and Oakville Film Festival. Her 14-minute documentary, 'Harold Dickert: Burlington Luthier', was shown at the Hamilton Music & Film Festival in September 2015. Her documentary, 'David Lambert: Fastest Knot-Tyer in Canada', was shown at the 10th Annual Hamilton Film Festival in November 2015.

Her first dramatic narrative short film (25 minutes), The Frozen Goose, was based on her published short story of the same name, included as the end story in the WW1 anthology, Engraved: Canadian Stories of WW1, published by Seriphim Editions in 2014.[18] Shot in February 2016, with a cast of five, at Westfield Heritage Centre in Rockton and other rural historic locations, the world premier of this period film was held at the Art Gallery of Burlington, on September 11, 2016. It screened twice during the 11th Annual Hamilton Film Festival. After a brief local theatrical release, it was broadcast on COGECO Halton during Remembrance Week and on CABLE 14 Hamilton as a Christmas Special on December 16 in 2017. The film has since been licensed to educational distributor, McIntyre Media, for the domestic market.

References edit

  1. ^ "Audio Ideas Guide: Canada's Hi-Fi and Home Theater Magazine - » About AIG: The past, present and future of AIG". www.audio-ideas.com. from the original on 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  2. ^ "Typesettra - Font Library". Linotype.com. from the original on 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  3. ^ "Biography – BEST, THOMAS HENRY – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". from the original on 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  4. ^ "The FROZEN GOOSE". The Frozen Goose. from the original on 2018-05-11. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  5. ^ "Dianne Bos". from the original on 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  6. ^ "The Homer Watson Public Art Gallery". from the original on 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  7. ^ "Bronte Historical Society". www.brontehistoricalsociety.ca. from the original on 2018-04-11. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  8. ^ Jeff Mahoney, "Memory's Shadow," The Hamilton Spectator, Summer, 2010.
  9. ^ "Women's Art Association of Hamilton". www.waah.ca. from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  10. ^ "FINE ARTS SOCIETY OF MILTON". FINE ARTS SOCIETY OF MILTON. from the original on 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  11. ^ "NETWORKING ACCOB (Arts & Culture Collective of Burlington)". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  12. ^ Devroye, Luc. "The Lindsay Holton files". luc.devroye.org. from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  13. ^ "Acorn Press Canada". 12 September 2008. from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  14. ^ "Hamilton Arts Council". from the original on 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  15. ^ "Sticks and Stones – Book Review by Robert Steven". bayobserver.ca. 2021-10-05.
  16. ^ King, Carol Soucek (1994-05-01). Furniture: Architects' and Designers' Originals. Glen Cove, NY: Vhps Rizzoli. ISBN 9780866362924.
  17. ^ "Jane Manchee". IMDb. from the original on 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  18. ^ "Seraphim Editions – Engraved". seraphimeditions.com. from the original on 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-05-07.

External links edit

  • History of the Lindsay Typeface, compiled by Professor Luc Devroye, University of McGill
  • Contributing Author, Raise the Hammer news blog
  • Oakville Festival of Film & Arts - https://offa.ca/art-fete/ Niagara Film Festival
  • Listing at Art Gallery of Burlington
  • The Frozen Goose REVIEW in The View Magazine, (page 13), December 2016
  • Women's Art Association of Hamilton
  • MLH Productions / Acorn Press Canada
  • CANADADA: TAKE TWO - CD - https://canadada.bandcamp.com - Reviewed in Greater Hamilton Musician, by Editor, Glen Brown
  • Metroland, Inside Halton News
  • Humber Alumni News - Author/Designer Profile [1]

May 03, 2024
margaret, lindsay, holton, canadian, artist, primarily, known, naive, surreal, folk, abstracts, acrylic, paintings, pinhole, photography, short, documentary, film, productions, poetry, literary, novel, works, born, 1955, april, 1955, nationalitycanadianalma, m. Margaret Lindsay Holton is a Canadian artist primarily known for her naive surreal folk abstracts oil and acrylic paintings pinhole photography short documentary film productions poetry and literary novel works Margaret Lindsay HoltonBorn 1955 04 04 4 April 1955 age 69 NationalityCanadianAlma materUniversity of TorontoOccupation s Artist designer author filmmakerYears active1978 presentWebsitecanadadaphotography wbr blogspot wbr ca Holton is the winner of the K W Irmisch Arts Person of the Year Award in 2016 from the City of Burlington In 2018 she received the Alumni of Influence award by University College University of Toronto and was nominated for the Premier of Ontario Arts Award Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life and education 1 2 Career 1 2 1 Painting 1 2 2 Type design 1 2 3 Writing 1 2 4 Fine furniture design and construction 1 2 5 Filmmaking 2 References 3 External linksBiography editEarly life and education edit Originally from the rural district of north Burlington Ontario Holton attended primary school at Hillfield Strathallan College in Hamilton and public high school at M M Robinson High School in Burlington before completing a 4 year English Literature Major Philosophy Minor B A at the University of Toronto Her third year at university was spent at the University of Edinburgh where she focused on the history of the English Language citation needed While in Scotland she traveled to the Outer Hebrides on a walk study tour of the islands She traveled through northern Ireland and stayed at a rented croft cottage on the west coast She also traveled through eastern Russia exploring the cities of Leningrad and Moscow After this third year of study she toured western Europe citation needed Returning to Toronto Canada Holton began a succession of jobs in the Canadian publishing and film industry including Assistant Editor at Andrew Marshall s FM GUIDE Magazine 1 proof reader and typesetter at Typesettra Fotocomp 2 under type designer Les Usherwood sales rep of T H Best Book Binding amp Printing 3 and Production Assistant at Roseanne McWaters Vin Lint and Associates a commercial film production house in downtown Toronto citation needed Career edit In 1978 Holton registered her design business MLH Productions under which she has undertaken a number of artistic ventures Holton is a designer of Canadian fine furniture and typefaces She is also the author of twelve book works of poetry prose social history amp photography She has produced and performed for three musical CDs Summer Haze 2014 jazz piano CANADADA TAKE TWO 2017 spoken word amp electro pop and GROUP THINK 2020 In 2015 she produced directed and wrote a classic Canadian WW1 film The Frozen Goose 4 Holton is a pinhole and photo collage photographer Holton makes all of her own pinhole cameras from found cardboard boxes and tins She hand processes the negatives and prints in editions of one to five All authentic MLH prints are signed numbered and dated by her She began pinholing in 2001 after taking a two hour pinhole course with pinholer Di Bos 5 Her pinhole works have been exhibited at the Homer Watson Public Art Gallery 6 of Kitchener Ontario and Art Gallery of Burlington Ontario and the Sovereign House Museum of Oakville managed by the Bronte Historical Society 7 In August 2010 The Art Gallery of Burlington published an exhibition monograph to the exhibition with an essay by Canadian author David Macfarlane Canadian documentarian Peter Wintonick O C wrote the foreword for the exhibition companion hard cover book Memory s Shadow Pinhole amp Photo Collage Photography by Margaret Lindsay Holton The title was reviewed by Jeff Mahoney art critic for The Hamilton Spectator who wrote Memory s Shadow confirms our impression of Holton as an important mixed media practitioner with a genuine artist s eye and a probing intellect 8 Painting edit Holton s paintings are naive surreal folk abstracts a descriptive moniker that demonstrates how her work falls outside of traditional and current art schools Nature environmental themes and planet Earth predominate in her work Canadada A Painter s Nature published by Acorn Press Canada accurately describes and illustrates her 40 year career of painting in oils and acrylics She has participated in over one hundred group exhibitions in Canada the US and Europe and participated in solo and studio tours over the past two decades Holton is a former member of the Women s Art Association of Canada the Women s Art Association of Hamilton 9 the Fine Arts Society of Milton 10 and The Arts amp Culture Collective of Burlington 11 Holton moved her home and studio from Southern Ontario to Eastern Ontario in June 2023 In January 2024 she will become an Associate Member of the Thousand Island Fine Art Association TIFAA Type design edit In 1979 Holton designed the Lindsay TM typeface Hand drawn pencil templates were supplied to Letraset England in a license for the dry transfer letter market Lindsay was one of the first typeface designs to be digitized using Peter Karow s innovative IKARUS system The Lindsay typeface was used in collaboration by both Letraset and URW of Hamburg Germany as a demo font to demonstrate IKARUS s capabilities in the early 1980s 12 Lindsay was also used as the defining font for the popular board game Carcassonne Holton has completed two other typeface designs Gato and CANADA Neither of these designs has been released to the public They remain as pencil drawings within her oeuvre of work Writing edit Holton studied English literature at the University of Toronto and produced her first written works in the 1980s She began her first novel Economic Sex while working as an English tutor in Spain in 1984 This literary work was published by Coach House Press of Toronto under pen name Ali Janna Whyte in 1985 She produced and edited The Spirit of Toronto 1934 1984 a compendium of essays by religious leaders of 45 different faiths highlighting multiculturalism in Toronto Launched at Fort York a hard copy was presented to the Pope s personal secretary Holton registered her artist s press Acorn Press Canada 13 in Ontario in 1997 As a writing artist she published her second novel The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous 1999 as well as two books of poetry On Top of Mount Nemo 2002 and Bush Chord 2006 with an e edition in 2012 under her artists imprint The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous novel won the Hamilton Arts Council 14 Best Fiction Award in 1999 Her third novel TRILLIUM was self published and released in October 2018 In June 2020 the second edition of The Gilded Beaver was released on Amazon in an ebook format identifying the author Margaret Lindsay Holton and her client Toronto financier Gordon H Eberts as the owner of the signature Four Canadian Fireside Chairs Those chairs were designed and fabricated by MLHolton A paperback edition was released in August In September 2021 Holton released Sticks and Stones Ten Canadian Short Stories succinctly reviewed in The Bay Observer by Robert Steven ex CEO of the Art Gallery of Burlington 15 Fine furniture design and construction edit Holton apprenticed with her father Luther Janna Holton 1922 2002 cabinetmaker and sole proprietor of Holton Fine Furniture of Hamilton before going into business for herself in 1986 as a Canadian fine furniture designer in Toronto under MLH Productions Her furniture works can be found in national public and international private collections including the Royal Ontario Museum curio box amp display cabinets the Canadian Film Centre library reception Stanley Ho of Hong Kong bedroom amp dining room suite David C W MacDonald of Toronto Temagami pedestals Wolf Settee Courting Bench amp Thee Mirror Rosamond Ivey of Toronto bedroom suite and Elizabeth Hanson of Toronto children beds The Hanson commission of three children s beds designed by MLH was published in Furniture Architects amp Designers Originals 16 by Carol Soucek King MFA PhD in 1994 Holton and Frank Gehry were the only Canadians honoured in this publication about international furniture designers One commission The Four Canadian Fireside Chairs was the subject of her second novel The Gilded Beaver by Anonymous Filmmaking edit Holton began working in film with Jane Walker Manchee 17 as co producer director writer and sound recordist for their first 54 min documentary In the Eye of the Hunter 1984 1986 The film was broadcast on Cable 10 Toronto for six months in a late night spot Over the last 20 years Holton has created over forty additional short documentary films under 15 minutes each In 2015 Holton s film amp photographic works were shown in The World s Shortest Film Fest as part of the Niagara Film Festival and Oakville Film Festival Her 14 minute documentary Harold Dickert Burlington Luthier was shown at the Hamilton Music amp Film Festival in September 2015 Her documentary David Lambert Fastest Knot Tyer in Canada was shown at the 10th Annual Hamilton Film Festival in November 2015 Her first dramatic narrative short film 25 minutes The Frozen Goose was based on her published short story of the same name included as the end story in the WW1 anthology Engraved Canadian Stories of WW1 published by Seriphim Editions in 2014 18 Shot in February 2016 with a cast of five at Westfield Heritage Centre in Rockton and other rural historic locations the world premier of this period film was held at the Art Gallery of Burlington on September 11 2016 It screened twice during the 11th Annual Hamilton Film Festival After a brief local theatrical release it was broadcast on COGECO Halton during Remembrance Week and on CABLE 14 Hamilton as a Christmas Special on December 16 in 2017 The film has since been licensed to educational distributor McIntyre Media for the domestic market References edit Audio Ideas Guide Canada s Hi Fi and Home Theater Magazine About AIG The past present and future of AIG www audio ideas com Archived from the original on 2018 05 08 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Typesettra Font Library Linotype com Archived from the original on 2018 05 08 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Biography BEST THOMAS HENRY Volume XV 1921 1930 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Archived from the original on 2018 05 08 Retrieved 2018 05 07 The FROZEN GOOSE The Frozen Goose Archived from the original on 2018 05 11 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Dianne Bos Archived from the original on 2018 05 15 Retrieved 2018 12 13 The Homer Watson Public Art Gallery Archived from the original on 2018 05 14 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Bronte Historical Society www brontehistoricalsociety ca Archived from the original on 2018 04 11 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Jeff Mahoney Memory s Shadow The Hamilton Spectator Summer 2010 Women s Art Association of Hamilton www waah ca Archived from the original on 2018 04 28 Retrieved 2018 05 07 FINE ARTS SOCIETY OF MILTON FINE ARTS SOCIETY OF MILTON Archived from the original on 2018 05 08 Retrieved 2018 05 07 NETWORKING ACCOB Arts amp Culture Collective of Burlington www facebook com Retrieved 2018 05 07 Devroye Luc The Lindsay Holton files luc devroye org Archived from the original on 2016 03 04 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Acorn Press Canada 12 September 2008 Archived from the original on 2018 02 05 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Hamilton Arts Council Archived from the original on 2018 05 08 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Sticks and Stones Book Review by Robert Steven bayobserver ca 2021 10 05 King Carol Soucek 1994 05 01 Furniture Architects and Designers Originals Glen Cove NY Vhps Rizzoli ISBN 9780866362924 Jane Manchee IMDb Archived from the original on 2017 02 16 Retrieved 2018 05 07 Seraphim Editions Engraved seraphimeditions com Archived from the original on 2018 05 08 Retrieved 2018 05 07 External links editHistory of the Lindsay Typeface compiled by Professor Luc Devroye University of McGill Contributing Author Raise the Hammer news blog Oakville Festival of Film amp Arts https offa ca art fete Niagara Film Festival Listing at Art Gallery of Burlington The Frozen Goose REVIEW in The View Magazine page 13 December 2016 Women s Art Association of Hamilton MLH Productions Acorn Press Canada CANADADA TAKE TWO CD https canadada bandcamp com Reviewed in Greater Hamilton Musician by Editor Glen Brown Metroland Inside Halton News Humber Alumni News Author Designer Profile 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Margaret Lindsay Holton amp oldid 1221438380, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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