Dwayne
Harty was born and raised in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. His interest in
wildlife art began in 1960 when, at the age of three, he began to draw.
His first formal wildlife art training was under artist Clarence Tillenius
at the Okanagan Game Farm in Penticton, British Columbia. In 1978 he moved
to Santa Fe where he painted with Robert Loughheed, Tom Lovell and Wilson
Hurley. He is the co-founder of Wildlife Art International's "Animal
Art in the Park" - Canada's premier wildlife art exhibition held
annually in Algonquin Park. His important commissions have included: an
International UNICEF greeting card (1996), Wildlife Habitat Canada's federal
duck stamp (1996) and the 1996 Royal Canadian Mint Platinum four coin
set. In addition to wildlife subjects, Dwayne Harty paints landscapes
and has executed large scale murals and dioramas for Toronto's Royal Ontario
Museum, Regina's Royal Saskatchewan Museum and the Wye Marsh Conservation
Centre in Midland, Ontario, and the Algonquin Park Visitor Centre. Dwayne
is a member of the Society of Animal Artists, from whom he received the
Award of Excellence at the 1993 annual exhibition and the Leonard J. Meiselman
Award in 1995.
