Gaston Rebry  (1933 - 200) was born in Belgium, the son of a champion road racing cyclist of the same name who was well known in the 1930s.

The younger Gaston Rebry, also a cyclist, graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Menin, Belgium (1952-53) before coming to Canada in 1954.

He continued his art studies at Montreal’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1954-55) before settling in Saint Boniface, Quebec. Known for his strong technical skill, Rebry did commercial illustration, but became known for his paintings, particularly his landscapes. The artist drew his inspiration from the Quebec landscape, which includes old houses, sugar bush cabins, woods and the country around the Maurice region. The influence of Group of Seven painters can be seen in Rebry’s work, but he developed his own unique style and colour schemes, tending to softer tones. He particularly liked to paint winter and fall Canadian scenes. Winter scenes show plenty of rounded forms and shapes, with branches drooping from the weight of snow. Falls scenes feature brighter colours. His paintings show us simplified forms, with sharp edges removed, rounded off, with trees becoming waving circles of colour, beneath streaked skies.

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