A well-known Collingwood artist and businessman has passed away.
Murray Clerkson was 75.
He died on Friday March 13th, at the Long Term Care centre in Meaford.
Clerkson was born in Saskatchewan, attended art school in Vancouver and lived in Toronto for many years before founding Clerksons Country Furniture in the 1970s in Collingwood.
The store was sold in a few years ago as Clerkson followed his passion for painting into retirement.
Clerkson’s paintings were full of colour and light, and were sold through local library shows, gallery exhibitions and even off the walls of local restaurants and businesses.
He donated his studio collection in 2008 to support the new Collingwood Library, his private collection of local artists works has been donated to the Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts.
There is no funeral service.
Those wishing to make donations are asked to support the Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts or Georgian Bay Animal Rescue.