Figurative painter, born and based in Birmingham, working mainly in oils, whose practice usually involved preparatory drawing. Harvey owed “indebtedness to 16th- and 17th- century models as well as contemporary influences.” Having studied foundation at Reading University, 1978–9, he then gained his certificate from the Royal Academy Schools, 1979–82. In 1980 he was awarded a life drawing award by the Schools and the Feeney Prize, RBSA; in 1982–3 an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award; and in 1985 was shortlisted for the Athena International Art Awards. Between 1983–9 Harvey practised as a portraitist and painter of large figure subjects, then undertook a huge mural of the Resurrection in the apse of Our Lady & St Brigid’s Roman Catholic Church, Northfield, Birmingham.