Stan Olthuis is a Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist currently based in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art (OCAD). His work is driven by an ongoing curiosity of our relationship to the world around us. Often reinterpreting persistent symbolisms such as sacred geometry, Olthuis explores spatial tension and interaction through abstract shapes and audience provocations powered by a colourful palette. Concept and process drive the work. He employs diverse materials and fabrication techniques to make paintings, sculptures and interactive works that welcome the viewer’s involvement. There’s a joy in the rawness and immediacy. His formal art education started in Chicago with Henrik Krijger, a celebrated Dutch master printmaker, type designer, painter and sculptor. He has shown extensively in private and public galleries and collected and commissioned by both private and corporate clients.