a r t i c l e s :
Gilbert Bouchard, "Rural immersion colours Saskatoon artist`s work", Edmonton Journal - "What`s On", June 6, 2008 (>>text)
Gilbert Bouchard, "Abstractionist`s work looks to the future, not the past", Edmonton Journal, The Visual Arts, June 23, 2006 (>>text)
Robert Christie, “Jonathan Forrest: New Works”, (catalogue essay, Art Gallery of Swift Current), 1990 (>>text)
Julia Dault, "Prairie Fields of Colour", National Post, April 15, 2004, B6 
(>>text)
Robert Enright, “Shaking Up All Over”, Border Crossing, Winter 2004 (“borderviews section”)
Terry Fenton, “Studio Visit”, (pamphlet for studio watch exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery), 1994 (>>text)
Sky Glabush, “Three Generations”, Canadian Art, Summer 2004 (exhibition review) (>>text)
Sky Glabush, "Pursuing Paint", the Mendel Art Gallery, Folio magazine, Winter 2000/01 (transcript of conversation between Glabush & Forrest) (>>text)
Sky Glabush, "Materialism", New West Magazine, 2000 (exhibition review) (>>text)
Piri Halasz and David Evison, "A Tale Of Three Cities", NY Arts Magazine , March, 2005 (>>text)
Helen Marzolf, "Jonathan Forrest: Recent Paintings", 1998 (essay for exhibition at the Dunlop Art Gallery) (>>text)
Roald Nasgaard, "Abstract Painting in Canada", published by Douglas & McIntyre, 2007, p. 297
Douglas McLean, "Abstraction's Bold New Face", Galleries West, April 2007
Steven Ross Smith, "Playing the Angles", Galleries West, April
2007
Jeffrey Spalding, "Jonathan Forrest: Exploding Abstraction’s Histories", Canadian Art Online, April 2010
Karen Wilkin, "An Inadvertent Vanguard", The Hudson Review, NY, Spring 2002 (>>text)
Karen Wilkin, "Northerness and Other Considerations: At the Museums and Elsewhere", The Hudson Review, NY, Winter 2004