Background
Unity Bainbridge was born in Victoria, British Columbia, 1916.
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Unity Bainbridge was born in Victoria, British Columbia, 1916.
Bainbridge studied in Vancouver at the then newly formed Vancouver School of Art from 1932-1936 under Grace Melvin and Charles H. Scott. "She regrets not having the Group of Seven"s Frederick Varley as a teacher and wishes that she had known Emily Carr.
" Bainbridge, in the early 1930s trekked through a vast area of British Columbia"s remote wilderness. She preferred to work alone and shunned most art groups. She was invited to join the Canadian Portrait Academy as a Founding Academician, but declined this offer.
Throughout her career she continued to work in graphite and watercolours as her primary medium often adding poetic titles if not full poems about the subjects she was depicting.
She met Lawren Harris in Vancouver in the 1930"s and met A.Y. Jackson in Toronto. They were both impressed with her trekking to remote places in British Columbia to work.
"In 1976 and 1977 she gathered together images she had made on repeated trips to communities between Pemberton and Lillooet. The works comprise Songs of Seton and Lullaby of Lillooet, two small books Bainbridge published in limited editions." Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition, 1938 Seymour Art Gallery, July 2 - August 15, 1986 Seymour Art Gallery, October 25 - November, 1989 Seymour Art Gallery, 1990 Heffel Gallery, Early British Columbian Woman Artists, June 1995.
West Vancouver Museum and Archives, Generations: Five Decades of Art in West Vancouver, 1999.
