$195 · Lorne Loomer Canadian olympian / artist framed Watercolour marina scene Victoria

Offered for sale this framed watercolour painting signed by Canadian gold medal champion Olympian and noted Vancouver Island artist Lorne Loomer. This fantastic watercolour is tasteful framed in a silver metallic frame and is ready to hang. The frame measures 16.25 inches in height x 20.25 inches in width. The painting depicting a marina, Possibly Oak Bay Marina is in fantastic condition and well executed. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Lorne Loomer 1937-2017 Bio accredited to the Nelson Star. In Canadian sports history, Loomer is known for his performance at the 1956 Summer Games, when he and teammates Archibald MacKinnon, Don Arnold and Walter d'Hondt won Canada's first-ever rowing gold medal. Loomer's honours also include a world record, competing at the 1960 Summer Games and inductions into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Sports Hall of Fame, and the BC Sports Hall of Fame. He married his wife Elizabeth in 1963 and the pair had two daughters, Lise-Lotte and Anne-Lise. Loomer founded the University of Victoria's rowing program in 1965, but for the next three decades his life was focused on his family. That meant working in a career he hated. He was really an artist, and he lived the life of a chemist in a pharmacy," said d'Hondt. "That really went against his grain. He put up with that and raised his family, and tragically had the stroke that allowed him to go back to his real love of painting.