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with various musical groups throughout his twenties In between musical gigs, he took a sales job selling artwork and met his future wife, Karla Elder. Garratt returned to Regina in 1995 – marrying Karla Elder in 2000. His wife became pregnant with the couple's first child, Jackson, in 2001 and they relocated to Spruce Grove, Alberta, 11 kilometres to the east of
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Garratt began drumming at high-school in Wawota. At 15 he began a two-week European tour with a combined U.S. – Canadian concert band, and at age 18 was awarded a scholarship to attend a music camp in Evje, Norway. After attending college he went on to play with various bands throughout the late
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Owen attended high school in Wawota until his graduation in 1986. Upon graduation from high school, Garratt returned to Regina to attend the local university. After a year he left university to study music at a nearby vocational music school for two years. He then moved to
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Due to partial color-blindness , Garratt creates black and white drawings using graphite, chalk and charcoal. His subjects are largely taken from North
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In 2007, Garratt won a $ 10,000 first prize at the Los
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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.”
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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.
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