George A. Norris

He studied at the Vancouver School of Art, and later under the tutelage of Ivan Meštrović at Syracuse University.

In 1955 he won a British Council scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Norris's best-known works are The Crab (1967), located outside the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, and the panels on the University of Victoria's McPherson Library (1963).

In 1960 Norris married Phyllis Piddington, who had grown up at "Wychbury" on Esquimalt, an estate home designed by Samuel Maclure.

After Norris suffered a head injury in a hiking accident, the couple moved to Victoria in 2008.