FLASH: GG Award-winner Wallace Edwards to donate work to The Autists

Gifted, awarded and much celebrated Canadian artist Wallace Edwards has agreed to donate a work of his art — as yet to be determined — to The Autists for auction at our May 2nd, 2010 extravaganza.

The creator, author and painter of Alphabeasts, Mixed Beasts, Painted Circus and numerous other award-laden children’s publications, agreed to the donation yesterday.

Known for his refreshingly unconventional imagination and an ability to get its progeny down on canvas or paper with vivid precision, Wallace has worked hard to establish his reputation as one of Canada’s premier artists.

Born in Ottawa, a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, he works mainly in watercolours and pencil, skillfully blending techniques ranging from cartooning to scientific illustration. His works are in public and private collections, books, magazines and on public display all over North America.

Wallace has received a great many awards, ranging from the Governor General’s Literary Award (Children’s Book Illustration) for Alphabeasts (2002) and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award as well as the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award for Monkey Business (2004) to the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Gold Medal (for best children’s picture book, age 7 & over) in 2007 for The Extinct Files (2006).

All of us at The Autists extend a warm welcome aboard to Wallace and thank him profusely for his kind donation.