Rian Torr
Artist / Writer
REFERENCE
“His writing is a gift. Extraordinary.”
- Philip Aziz
International Master Artist
RECENT AWARDS
Best Use of the Medium (Second Place) for “Third Eye Of The Dragonfly,” London International Chalkfest 2009, Sponsored by The Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Best Religious for “Virgin Mary Abstract,” London International Chalkfest 2008, Sponsored By The Knights Of Columbus.
PUBLISHED ART
Bellaonline.com’s Mused Magazine’s Summer Solstice Edition 2009 (Visual Arts Competition – 3 winning entries). (Bella is the 2nd largest women’s website in the world, reporting 20 million pageviews monthly.)
PUBLISHED WRITING
The Sunspots Of Serendipity: Abridged, 440 Quatrains, Authorhouse 2008.
In French’s Forest: A Supernatural Fantasy Horror Love Novel, TheBookPatch.com, 2011.
(Also Kindle.com, 2011. Lulu.com, 2011. Cafepress.com)
PROFESSIONAL SONGWRITING
Dawn, Canada, Sponsored by The University Of Ottawa’s Promised Land Project, Research & Lyrics (see riversongs.ca) Emac Studios, 2009.
National Canoe Day, Official Songs of the International Peterborough Canoe Museum, 2009.
ART EXHIBITS
2006 – The London Club
2007 – The London Music Club
2008 – Galleria’s Hudson Passageway
2008 – Spiritual Arts Center
2009 – International London Chalkfest
2009 – BellaOnline.com’s Mused Magazine
2010 – TO Oakwood Arts Center
2011 – Organic Oscars Yoga Studio
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
5-Year Honours English, University of Western Ontario, 2001.
A) If you change a name, place, characteristic or any element’s detail or plot device or anything at all really–the best thing to do is finish the first draft before going back. Stopping to correct for continuity just gets you caught up in perfecting the previous words–sapping precious inspiration from [...]
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