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Gordon Breckenridge
Gordon Breckenridge was born in Canada in 1948 growing up on a farm always in contact with nature. In his younger years he worked 2 years in a bank then he went to the University studying Business administration. At the age of 23 he decided to follow his talent and moved to Florence where  he later graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1975. Meanwhile  he studied charcoal drawing and painting with the renowned teacher Nerina Simi in the school  founded by her father; who had studied under Gerome in Paris in the 1870s. In this period he received two international Canadian  “Greenshield awards” to continue his studied with her.

These 9 years of Classical training laid the foundations from which Gordon has gradually developed  his own unique and personal style. Being married Italian, living in Florence he travelled through Tuscany and Northern Italy with personal exhibitions in Cinque Terre and Portofino. He also exhibited in Canada at the MacMillan & Perrin Gallery (Vancouver), as well as in California and New Mexico. His work has been exhibited in Switzerland and England. The artist also helped a few years the Ontario College of Arts In there Florence program.

Exibitions

 * 2014 - Collective exhibition “Gli allievi di Nerina Simi” Palazzo della Cultura, Cardoso - Stazzema - Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
 * 2012 - Webbs Fine Art Gallery, London, England.
 * 2011 - The Air Gallery, London, England.
 * 1996 - Galleria Tettori Tribbio, Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy.
 * 1995 - Galleria Tornabuoni Florence, Tuscany, Italy, presenting his silkscreens and lithographs work.
 * 1995 - Gallery 'De Leyssel', Switzerland.
 * 1993 - The Napier Gallery, Jersey, Channel Islands, England.
 * 1990 - 2019 Permanent exhibition, Art Gallery in Tuscany, San Gimignano, Tuscany Italy.
 * 1989 -  Sketches, 'Gruppo Donatello', Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
 * 1989 -  Watercolours and Oil on canvas, Solagna, sponsored by the City Hall, Veneto, Italy
 * 1989 - Oil on canvas, Oratorio dell'Assunta, Portofino, Liguria, Italy.
 * 1988 - Watercolours and Oil on canvans, Gallery Lo Sfizio, Santa Margherita, Liguria, Italy.
 * 1985 - Watercolours, Café Hochli, Willisau, Switzerland.
 * 1985 - Sketches and watercolours at the Stern Gallery, Lucerne, Swizerland.
 * 1981 - 1986 Summer exhibitions, Cinque terre, Liguria, Italy.
 * 1981 -  Watercolors, Café Hochli, Willisau, Switzerland.
 * 1979 - Charcoal drawings and sketches of his previous six years with Simi of Macmillian and Perrin Gallery, four locations: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver (Canada) and London (England).
 * 1976 - Chianciano Terme in Tuscany, Italy.