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Fort langley, B.C.

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 Alan Wylie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1938. In 1960 he graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Mural Design and Mosaics. He immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1967 and began a career as a full-time artist, teacher, and Art Gallery owner. In 1974 he moved to British Columbia and now lives in the historical village of Fort Langley with his artist wife, Janice Robertson.

       Throughout his career, Alan has participated in 72 solo shows, and innumerable group exhibitions, and has won many prestigious awards in Canada and the United States, including the Spillsbury Gold Medal (four times) of the Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, the Grand Prize at the 1st. Annual International “ On The Edge “ Exhibition, Vancouver, the Gold Medal of the California Watercolor Association, San Francisco, the Rouse Gold Medallion at the Adirondacks International Exhibition of American Watercolors, New York, the High Winds Medal (twice),the Mario Cooper and Dale Myers Medal, the CFS Medal, the Alden Bryan Memorial Medal at the American Watercolor Society, New York, and 1st. Place Award, Louisiana Watercolor Society, New Orleans.

       He is a Senior Signature Member and Past President of the Federation of Canadian Artists (SFCA), the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists (CIPA), the Northwest Watercolor Society (NWWS) the California Watercolor Association (CWA), the Louisiana Watercolor Society (LWS),the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor(CSPWC), and a Dolphin Fellow  (the first Canadian to achieve this distinction ) of the American Watercolor Society (AWS., DF.) Received a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Federation of Canadian Artists, and made an Honoury Member of the Jiangsu Watercolor Research Institute, Nanjing, China.

       Alan is also a noted mural and mosaic artist, with over fifty completed works in Scotland, Canada and the United States.