Wallace Edwards
Wallace Edwards (September 20, 1957 – December 25, 2022) beloved award-winning author-illustrator captured, transformed and inspired the imagination of both children and adults alike.
Edwards won the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature Illustration for his first children’s picture book, Alphabeasts. His third book Mixed Beasts won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award.
A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, his paintings and illustrations are found in public and private collections, books, magazines and on public display in Canada and the United States. Edwards’ clients include the Metro Toronto Zoo, the BC Ministry of the Environment, the Canadian Wildlife Federation and countless various magazine publishers.
Wally’s Imaginarium Fund
In support of this endowment, 10% will be added to the sale price of all the artist’s available artwork.
Engaging the minds of young students
Established in loving memory of Wallace Edwards (September 1957 – December 2022), The Wally’s Imaginarium Fund seeks to bring together accredited artists with children through ‘free to student’ creative workshops emphasizing story telling through the visual arts, with a focus on analog drawing/painting. The Fund will provide grants to schools/libraries/other settings so that artists can provide creative visual arts workshops and presentations to children.
Funds raised will be used to support art-based activities for children in schools/libraries/other settings in a variety of ways. Fully trained and accredited artists would work with children to explore and expand their creativity.
A Governor General’s Award-winning artist, Wally believed in nurturing children’s imagination and dedicated himself to teaching not to draw so much as to use drawing to let their imaginations soar. Wally was very popular with children who loved his nonsensical creativity and through him learned the power of their own creativity.
~ supported through the Community Foundation of Kingston & Area
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