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the art of frederick tofts

I recently did a public powerpoint presentation "The Renaissance Man", the title was created by members of our local library who are aware of my wide areas of interest, namely the arts and the sciences. I Travelled globally troubleshooting complex integrated Marine Navigation systems, was on the design team responsable to design radars for the Canadian forces Submarine Fleet. Emigrated from England to Halifax Nova Scotia Canada,  to supervise installation ot the systems in 1974, moved to Maple Ridge BC, 1979. Have always had a passion for the arts, portraits in oils, Gothic Cathedrals with indian ink, watercolors, pastels and my current medium, silverpoint pen. I attended a  local art workshop in 1998 and was introduced to the metalpoint drawing medium, I could not buy a pen so I made my own. While in England in 2001, tried to purchase a pen, but was unable to source one, so on my return to Canada I purchased a wood lathe, designed a Silverpoint pen which is named the "Frederick" silverpoint pen, that we sell in our local store. I felt the Renaissance was a good compliment for Silverpoint, as it was the medium of choice of the great masters of art, ie; Michelangelo, Leornado da Vinci, Raphael and Albrecht Drurer.