 LAURIE McGAW
Place of residence: Shelburne, Ontario
A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Laurie McGaw is a freelance illustrator, picture-book illustrator, and portrait artist. She studied art in Florence, Rome and New York and worked for many years for Chatelaine in Toronto. She credits her training, at school and on the job, with influencing and helping her to develop the precise, detailed style which is her trademark. To ensure accurate and authentic pictures, she always uses models -- family and friends -- dressed in appropriate costumes which she designs and sews herself. Found objects -- unusual artifacts, period furniture, photographs -- are also used to help her visualize the scene she is painting. Readers of Polar, the Titanic Bear will see her daughter in a number of the pictures. The little boy who posed for Douglas is said to be the picture image of the real-life Douglas who lived so many years ago. Laurie McGaw lives with her husband and two young children in the countryside near Shelburne, Ontario. Awards
- 1995 Silver Birch Award for Polar, the Titanc Bear.
Selected Bibliography
The Canada Goose. Written by Judith Drynan; illustrated by Laurie McGaw. Toronto: Horizon Publishing, c1980.
32 p.: ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
ISBN 0919157173
Discovering the Iceman: What It Was Like to Find a 5,300-Year-Old Mummy. Written by Shelley Tanaka; illustrated by Laurie McGaw. Richmond Hill, Ont.: Scholastic Canada, 1996. (I was there)
ISBN 0590249509 (bound)
ISBN 0590249517 (pbk.)
The Illustrated Father Goose. Written by Shelley Tanaka; illustrated by Laurie McGaw. Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company (Canada), c1995.
48 p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
ISBN 0316527092
Polar, the Titanic Bear. Written by Daisy Corning Stone Spedden; illustrated by Laurie McGaw; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company Canada, c1994.
64 p.: ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
ISBN 0316806250
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