Canadian Sport Heroes Collection

A select group of athletes have changed the face of sport in Canada forever. Olympic medallists, world champions, fierce competitors — they have competed for our country, they have won with pride and lost with dignity. Through their efforts they have proven that sport can capture the imaginations of an entire country — and often the entire world.

They deserve to be remembered. 

This growing series of portraits commissioned by the Canadian Sport Centre Calgary will ensure a lasting tribute to our sport heroes.

Canadian Sport Heroes featured to date:

Diane Jones Konihowski

Willie de Wit

Alex Baumann

Silken Laumann

Gaetan Boucher

Beckie Scott

Michael Smith

Catriona Le May Doan

About the Artist

Gordon Milne was born in Hamilton, Ontario and studied art at McMaster University. After graduating he worked as a printmaker and mixed-media artist and successfully exhibited his work in several Calgary and Vancouver galleries.

In the early '90's Milne switched to painting, focusing on portraiture. In addition to his active involvement in the Sport Heroes Collection, Milne is working on a series of commissioned private portraits as well as portraits of select dancers with the Alberta Ballet.

A painter and colourist, Milne's paintings have been described as an intricate arrangement of shapes and colors which subtly invite the viewer to identify the subject's personality based on optical cues. These monumental portraits are Milne's biggest accomplishment and his trademark today.

www.gordonmilneart.com

Presented by ARC Energy Trust

The Canadian Sport Heroes Collection is made possible by the generous support of ARC Energy Trust. ARC Energy Trust, located in Calgary, Alberta, is one of Canada’s largest conventional oil and gas royalty trusts with an enterprise value of approximately $5.2 billion.   ARC Energy Trust is an actively managed royalty trust formed to provide investors with indirect ownership in cash generating energy assets, which currently consist of oil and gas assets but in the future may include other related energy assets. In 2008, the Trust expects to produce approximately 63,000 boe per day from five core areas in western Canada.