Visual Arts Mississauga is presenting a two day exhibition of Ronald Malcolm Lambert Saturday and Sunday Feb. 26 - 27 2016. Lambert was born in Oshawa and is one of Canada’s original abstract artist. He was a student of Alexandra Luke (Painters 11) when he was eight as well as studying with A.Y. Jackson (Group of Seven) as a teenager. He also studied with Modernist master Hans Hofmann. The exhibit covers Lambert's time with Hofmann when he was 19 juxtaposed with his current work created at the age of 88, a span of 69 years. Lambert will be on hand both days for an artists’ talk.

Ronald Malcolm Lambert (Canadian, b. 1927) is one of the first, if not the original, of the post-war new wave of English Canadian abstract artists. In the summer of 1947, Ron Lambert was a student of abstract expressionist master painter Hans Hofmann.