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Donald Harvey, Dayscape 3 , serigraph 13/20, 1977. Donald Harvey was born in 1930 in Walthamston, Middlesex, England. After studies at the West Sussex College of Art and the Brighton College of Art, Harvey taught at an art college in Wales. He immigrated to Canada in 1958. After settling in Regina, Harvey quickly became involved in the arts scene, serving as Executive Secretary of the Saskatchewan Arts Board from 1958 to 1961. Harvey then moved to Victoria, British Columbia and joined the Education department of UVic in 1961 and, alongside colleague John Dobereiner, was one of the founding members of the Visual Arts department when it was established in 1966. He was appointed as full professor in 1975 and not only served several terms as chair but also maintained a rigorous schedule of teaching and professional artistic practice throughout his 30-year career at UVic. Harvey was at the forefront of abstract painting experimentation in the 1960s and ‘70s in Victoria. Coming out of the English modernist landscape tradition, Don moved into abstraction and developed his unique diamond-shaped canvas that rejected the horizontal landscape tradition while still very much being about the natural environment and its intersection with architecture. Younger artists such as Carl Beam and Eric Metcalfe proclaimed he was a major influence on their careers. A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, his paintings, prints, and drawings received significant international recognition, and his work has been exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Seattle Art Museum and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Harvey’s work remains part of UVic’s permanent art collection. Harvey's work in watercolour and acrylics changed in style over the course of his career. Earlier paintings were largely non-representational; later images drew from nature and “communicate ideas about the relationship between the natural and built environments.” Donald Harvey retired from teaching at UVic in 1992. He died in 2015, in Victoria, British Columbia.