Glenn Howarth was born in Vegreville, Alberta in 1946. As an artist whose practice spanned a range of media including oil on canvas, charcoal, and graphite, he was fascinated with the science and philosophy of perception. The aesthetic of his work was highly influenced by the shapes and colours of Canada's West Coast, having spent the majority of his career in Victoria, British Columbia. After graduating from the University of Victoria’s Visual Arts program in 1987, he began the Victoria Drawing Academy in his studio in Fan Tan Alley in the city’s historic Chinatown and also taught at the University of Victoria and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Howarth’s foray into digital art was brief, productive, and relatively little known. He represented Canada in the 1983 Bienal de São Paulo, both curating and participating in an exhibition of 11 Canadian digital artists working with Telidon. He passed away in Victoria in 2009.
