Guy Harvey Careers and Employment in Miami, Florida

Welcome to the World of GUY HARVEY

Widely recognized today as the world’s finest marine wildlife artist, Guy Harvey combines his unique artistic talents with his background as a marine biologist, diver, photographer and angler, to create marine wildlife art with an unmatched authenticity and visual appeal. Self-taught, Guy’s artistic roots can be traced back to his childhood on the Caribbean Isle of Jamaica, where he spent many hours fishing and diving with his father along the island’s south coast. Guy’s obsession with the creatures of the sea inspired early drawings of the many different fish he observed. While attending a boarding school in England at an early age, Guy became entranced by Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” — and began developing a series of sketches that years later would prove instrumental in helping launch his career as an artist.

Dr. Harvey graduated with honors in marine biology from Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1977 and earned a doctorate from the University of the West Indies in 1982 in fisheries management and fish biology. It was while teaching that he decided to exhibit some of his illustrations of The Old Man and the Sea. The overwhelming sales of his limited-edition prints convinced him to set aside his scientific career for a time and turn his hobby into a business. In 1986, Guy Harvey launched his apparel brand the first Guy Harvey t-shirt hit the water.

In 1999, Guy Harvey partnered with the Oceanographic Center at Nova Southeastern University to create the Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) for the purpose of providing “the scientific information necessary to understand, conserve and effectively manage the world’s marine fishes and their ecosystems.” The GHRI provides global-level leadership in the generation of the scientific data necessary to conserve the world’s fish resources.

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