Biography

300_TW_and_swamp_spruce - Artspace OakvilleTerry Watkinson (born 1940 in what is now Thunder Bay, Ontario) is an artist, painter, illustrator, and musician. After spending his youth in Thunder Bay and Iroquois Falls Ontario, Watkinson attended the University of Toronto for two years in the field of architecture, until he left to participate in the band Max Webster where he gained national prominence as the keyboardist during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Upon the dissolution of the band, he returned to the university to study medical illustration. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science, he taught the subject at the University of Toronto. Terry is also active as a painter of other subjects. In 1993 he painted the third and most popular of Klaatu’s Greatest Hits, Peaks. source