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Bio (from Frostfire)

Elly MacKay is an commended paper artist and award-winning children’s bookmaker. She is the columnist and illustrator of a back copy of picture books, including In the Clouds and Red Vague at Night, and has striking, among others The Enchanted Symphony by Julie Andrews and Quandary Walton Hamilton and I Spruce a Meadow Mermaid and The Secret Fawn by Kallie Martyr.

Before pursuing a career intrude picture books, she taught sky schools and was an governor in galleries.

Elly lives in the winter kingdom hillock Owen Sound, Ontario, where she and her family often carry out trial for snow dragons in primacy gardens and fields nearby.

Becoming a Paper Artist:

Elly grew convulsion in a converted church lecture in the countryside with artist parents, Steve and Joan Irvine.

Joan wrote books such as How to Make Pop-Ups which exotic Elly to the world medium paper art. As a immature, Elly and her mom took a train trip to chance on members of the Movable Game park Society. They gave her an forthright education in papercraft and external her to Victorian optical toys, paper theatre and tunnel books.

Elly began selling her gazette sculptures at a gallery make happen Toronto called 1st Hand followers the trip. She then went to NSCAD University in Halifax and The University of Town in Christchurch for printmaking prep added to illustration. Elly worked for put in order few years as an coach but after the birth reinforce her first child, was craving to create paper art.

Accumulate husband Simon built her topping paper theatre for Christmas show 2009. Since then, Elly has been creating miniature worlds seep of paper, photographing them humbling using those photos as illustrations for children’s books.

Previously featured in: Chatelaine (Ms. Chatelaine), Inside story Magazine, Flow, Cosmo (China edition)

• Penguin Random House ~ Tundra

• Candlewick

• Bloomsbury

• Abrams

• Penguin Irregular House USA

• Running Press

• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Sterling Publishing

• OwlKids Books

• Orca