Glynn boyd harte biography

British illustrator, artist and lithographers (1948-2003)

Glynn Boyd Harte (28 April 1948 – 16 December 2003) was a British artist, illustrator and author.

Early life and career

Harte was born in Rochdale, his father Herbert worked as a commercial artist and later teaching.^[1] Harte always maintained that print was in his blood, his grandfather being a printer by trade and his earliest memory being a garden path made from lithograph stones.^[1] He was educated at Rochdale Grammar School, before progressing to the Rochdale School of Art.

He later transferred to St Martin's School of Art, where tutor Fritz Wegner encouraged him to move from black and white to colour. He would later join the Royal College of Art in 1970 where his tutors were Brian Robb, Edward Bawden, Paul Hoga