Joseph Plaskett

Joseph Plaskett (12 July 1918 – 21 September 2014) was a Canadian painter. His special gift was painting still life and flowers. He also worked in pastel.

Biography Plaskett was born in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1918. He initially studied history, and taught school for six years but in 1944, became interested in art. He studied at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and the Banff School of Fine Arts, where his teacher was A.Y. Jackson. In 1945, he joined the B. C. Society of Artists. he studied at the San Francisco School of Art. From 1949 to 1951, in Paris, he studied with Fernand Léger.

In Paris, Plaskett, having renounced abstraction, painted still lifes in oils and did pastels that Vancouver Sun art critic Michael Scott described as “romanticized impressionism”. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was also a member of the Canadian Group of Painters.

In 2000, he moved to Suffolk, England.