After losing his right arm in an accident at work, Clarence Tillenius taught himself to paint with his left hand. The work that has resulted is now recognized throughout the world.
In 1954, he began a series of large paintings of Canada’s wildlife and wilderness landscapes. Hundreds of thousands of reproductions of these paintings and their accompanying texts have been distributed across Canada and around the world.
Clarence Tillenius is one of Canada’s foremost wildlife artists. He has done beautiful dioramas for the Manitoba Museum and for other museums in Canada and the U.S.A. He has also written several books on wildlife. The Conservatory at Assiniboine Park houses a large collection of his paintings – many of them personally donated by Mr. Tillenius.
Mr. Tillenius will be 90 years of age in August, 2003 and still continues to paint.
