Peter Sawatzky, OM (born 1951) is a Canadian sculptor from the southern Manitoba community of Sommerfeld.
Notable works by Sawatzky include Seal River Crossing (2007) at Portage and Main in Winnipeg, Mother Polar Bear and Cubs (2014) at the Assiniboine Park Zoo, and a sculpture of Dirk Willems at the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Manitoba (2018).
He grew up on his family's farm in Sommerfeld, and attended the Commercial Art Course at Red River College in Winnipeg through a scholarship.
[5] Awards and exhibitions won the artist international recognition, and by the mid 1980s, his success enabled him to make the decision to work in bronze and to set up his own foundry in Manitoba.
In 1995, he cast a 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) bronze sculpture entitled The Passage of Time for the south side of Winnipeg's Charleswood Bridge.