Owen Garratt

Owen “Pencilneck” Garratt (born 1968) is an artist and musician born in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Personal life Owen Garratt was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the only child of Gary and Susan Garratt. Gary and Susan divorced in 1971 and Owen lived with his mother until her death in a plane crash in January, 1982. Although Garratt is now a full-time artist, he still devotes some of his time to playing music. He has recently been involved in co-writing and recording the music for a reality TV show, centred on his own life.

Garratt is also the Drum Sergeant for the Spruce Grove Fire-fighter's Pipe and Drum Band.

Artistic career Due to partial color-blindness , Garratt creates black and white drawings using graphite, chalk and charcoal. His subjects are largely taken from North American culture – featuring the oil and gas industries, agricultural scenes, and wild life. He is entirely self-taught, beginning his professional career as an artist after the drawing he produced for his grandmother – as a Christmas present – was criticised by his then-girlfriend. Garratt believes that “The world wants its artists to climb above the tree-line, slay the dragon, and come back to tell the tale.”