Personal Life
Born on 31 January 1966, at Pickering Beach, Ajax, Ontario, he was raised by his paternal grandparents A. J. Corbet II and Alice Charlotte Corbet (née Gould), descendants of a prominent family from Guernsey Channel Islands and a theatrical family from London, England respectively. At a very young age, he developed a strong interest in the fine arts while working with his grandfather on commercial signs. Due to increasingly ill health, chronic asthma, by the age of 14 he was not able to participate in regular sports like most children his age, so his grandparents along with his great uncle John Gould and great aunt Olive Gould strongly encouraged him to paint and sculpt. Being raised predominantly on the shores of Lake Ontario he always held a close fascination with water, water and ice formations and its power which to this very day has become a main theme for his paintings.
As Corbet's artistic career was just commencing his closest aunt Olive Gould died suddenly in 1995. Following this he divorced his first wife in 1997. This was then followed in 1999 by the tragedy of the death of his mother whose body was found in a remote barren field near Orangeville, Ontario. The passing of his mother was regarded as a suspicious suicide.
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