Errol H. R. Etienne - April 28, 1941 - April 22, 2011

I get-go met Errol Etienne when he had a graphic blueprint studio inwards Montréal, Québec. My married adult woman was his "mechanical man" too prepared all his camera-ready artwork. He was a profound influence inwards my mental attitude towards the graphic arts equally he epitomized the consummate commercial creative individual excelling at design, illustration, photography, too typography.
A few pages from "Brown Things" a self advertisement mass written too illustrated past times Errol too enshroud printed on handmade Japanese paper.
Étienne was born inwards Edinburgh, Scotland inwards 1941, simply spent virtually of his childhood inwards Québec, Canada. At the historic menses of 27, inwards 1968, he graduated from the Art Center College of Design inwards Los Angeles, California.
The "Incredible Fuzzy Wonder Book" a modest promotional mass featuring diverse moustachioed celebrities including Errol too partner Jim Carpenter produced during his brief Toronto stay.
In the mid-seventies he moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he did draw of piece of work organisation nether the mention of the "Frog too Bison" "Frog" beingness a reference to his years inwards Montréal, Quebec, too "Bison" for a old associate inwards Montana. At that fourth dimension Errol also operated a studio/gallery, the "Frog too Swan" alongside artist/calligrapher Robin Arkell. Errol embodied no-compromise professionalism: "I don't allow people brand changes inwards my locomote because it's too thence personal. I know production too what the undertaking needs, too the exclusively affair that's of import is the terminate product. How you lot become to that is the work because the exclusively measure is that it must hold out excellent. There is actually is no excuse for a mediocre end product."

Errol's career veered off rail inwards the early on 1980s due to disease too it wasn’t until afterwards a liver transplant inwards 1994 that he could provide to his craft, simply institute the demand to locomote differently inwards a unlike market. “When I came out at that spot were computers too everything had changed for graphic designers.” So Errol gave upward graphic blueprint locomote too alongside his married adult woman January became a vagabond too worked inwards a “mobile studio,” a GMC motorhome that took them across the country, painting, coming together alongside collectors too selling his locomote at individual shows too modest town markets.
"The low-cal that burns twice equally brilliant burns for one-half equally long - too you lot bring burned too thence very, rattling brightly."