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Derek Michael Besant

Derek Michael Besant (Born 1950) is active/lives in Alberta / Canada.  Derek Besant is known for Mural and easel painting, museum professional, teaching.

Derek Michael Besant was born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, in 1950. Growing up with parents who worked in the oil patch, he moved around a lot, and lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba and various cities in Alberta.

“I attended 13 different schools before university,” Besant writes. “I can always remember painting a fence in a new yard that backed onto the wild prairie, a woodland, or mountainous valley. I tend to be good at research, so education was a positive experience for me, even with all the moving between provinces.” (Besant, correspondence with the author, March 13, 2008)

After high school Besant was headed for studies in Geophysics at university, but followed his “inner instincts” and studied Fine Arts instead. He graduated from the University of Calgary in Alberta with a Bachelor of Fine Arts honours degree in 1973, followed by graduate studies there. He then served as Exhibition Designer for the new construction and relocation of t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4065 characters.]  Artist bio

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