Ron Friesen is a Canadian painter and photographer located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He enjoys abstracting reality with emotion-triggering interpretations of his subjects and their environments.
Ron Friesen paints and photographs only when he is driven by passion, pain, joy, or the simple desire to communicate with others on an elevated level. He continually strives to capture bits of humour, beauty and emotion from the sum of his experience and thrust the colours and forms aggressively into their existence as image.
Ron was born and raised on the Canadian prairies during the mid-20th-century. He was a musician, performing throughout Western Canada until 1978 when he turned to studio work and eventually established himself in a career of advertising, marketing, sales and entrepreneurship to support his family. Ron moved to Vancouver in 1987 and in 2016 made the decision to work and play full time in his photography and painting studios.
