Artist who created 20,000 paintings and participated in 300 international exhibitions.
“I am unique because I became world-class in two things. Da Vinci was never the figure skating champion of Italy.”
Toller considered himself an artist. Period. He studied the Renaissance masters whom he much admired. He examined their techniques, their brush strokes, their use of colour. His admiration for the great artists was profound but he did periodically observe that great as they were, neither Leonardo nor Michelangelo could execute a double axel. Toller was an artist who skated. He utterly rejected the idea that he was a skater who painted.
He had zero tolerance for stupidity, rigidity, mediocrity, incompetence, or half-assed effort. He was a fearless, caustic force and fully unflinching in everything he said and did. An artist on ice, in the studio, and in his life.
Toller Cranston died of a heart attack in 2015 in Mexico. He was 65. His headstone in San Miguel de Allende reads Toller, Artist, 1949–2015, Zero Tolerance.
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Artist who created 20,000 paintings and participated in 300 international exhibitions.
“I am unique because I became world-class in two things. Da Vinci was never the figure skating champion of Italy.”
Toller considered himself an artist. Period. He studied the Renaissance masters whom he much admired. He examined their techniques, their brush strokes, their use of colour. His admiration for the great artists was profound but he did periodically observe that great as they were, neither Leonardo nor Michelangelo could execute a double axel. Toller was an artist who skated. He utterly rejected the idea that he was a skater who painted.
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Pages
252
ISBN
9781997701026
Published Date
November 4, 2025
Product Form
Hardcover
Phillippa Cranston Baran
Phillippa Cranston Baran is an award-winning producer, writer, former film professor and dairy goat farmer. She is the older sister of Toller Cranston and has a faded gash on her left thigh from when he once kicked her with his skates for refusing to twirl him.
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