Sally Kaldor was born in Yorkshire, England. Her father is Hungarian born painter, Andras Kaldor. After getting her feet wet in London, working in the world of advertising in the ‘80s, Sally travelled to Vancouver via India, Nepal and South East Asia, and finally had the guts to enrol in art school. Since then, she has made Canada her home. Between them, she and her husband Mark have seven children, two dogs and a cat.

Painting

Present Skies I painted these Present Skies as a way to escape my relentless, never-ending, thinking. In painting, I find peace, and I find a place to lose my mind; I lose my mind to colour, balance, contrast, and to form.

The process of creating grey skies,
these gorgeous, dark, bleak places of uncertainty and unrest is a meditation
on beauty, and it is a meditation on life. These are the complex, alluring and
alive skies of possibility and hope.

I believe, it is on our darkest days, the cloud-filled days, that we may find our selves. It is here, where we may learn and where we may come to find our Truth.

485 Red My fascination with red, and Pantone 485 in particular, began a long time ago. I continue to be curious about the graphic impact and the physical power of red. Blood, lips, fire, power. Red is a glorious colour indeed.

CMYK 0, 95, 100, 0

Photographs

Floating Boats Since a chance fishing trip to the Haida Gwaii in the late 90s, I have been captivated by the vast Canadian sky, and the ocean that meets her.

This series of photographs captures the waiting boats of English Bay. Here they sit, beasts of commerce, in daunting somnolence. Huge vessels, made minuscule by the scale and serenity of the ocean and the magnificent, grey sky.

About

Sally Kaldor holds a Bachelor of Design degree from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Program, Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders.  

From 1996 until 2018, Sally was the Managing Director of Kaldor Brand Strategy and Design. She guided the strategic and creative development of the Company since establishing it in 1996. 

Kaldor’s design of all Canadian tobacco product packaging in the late 1990s was profiled at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The Museum called the Kaldor-designed, Health Canada cigarette warnings “masterpieces of design” and selected them for its “SAFE: Design Takes on Risk” exhibit. Oct 2005

In 2018, Sally closed the design studio to focus on painting and photography. Her work explores the most beautiful, mundane, vast and glorious, ever-changing play of glorious, bleak and uncertain skies.

Sally sits on the Rick Hansen Foundation Board of Directors.