LAURIE STEINLaurie is an award-winning artist from Toronto. Since graduating from OCAD, she has been painting on canvases with her work on display in homes throughout North America and Europe. She won the Canadian entry for her painting entitled “DOUBLE TAKE” at the Spanish Miradas International Art Competition 2016, under the pseudonym Laurie Andrews, and again in 2018 for her painting, “AS I SEE IT”, this time entered as Laurie Stein. Her paintings have been featured on various magazine covers, profiled in Toronto’s Rosedale magazine, Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, and the READ magazine, 2020. Laurie teaches painting workshops online through Art Barn and the Creative Corner.If Laurie isn’t painting on canvases, she is painting on canvas paper, illustrating, and designing children’s books. Her book, SPECTACULARLY BEAUTIFUL, Pow books NY, written by Lisa Lucas, was given a stellar review by the New York Times, Heather’s Pick for Best Books for kids 2019 and the coveted Kirkus star, selling worldwide. Her newest book, WHEN THE EARTH SHOOK, Tilbury House, Maine, was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. It too is a Heather’s Pick, chosen as a best picture book 2020 by Publisher’s Spotlight and the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.If not painting or illustrating, she is designing characters for tv shows and licensing her art with the Suzanne Cruise Creative Agency. She teaches adults and children to draw digitally as well as on paper through Zoom classes. Laurie has spent every summer at her cottage in Muskoka and over the last decade has used her cottage as her studio to paint. The rest of the year she lives in Toronto.