Bob Law Sketches 

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When Bob law draws a house or building in Georgetown, he’s often capturing a piece of our heritage on paper. The Georgetown artist uses a fine magic marker to sketch out some of the more familiar landmarks in Halton Hills. His works are available on greeting cards and are popular with local folk who wish to mail to friends or family a scene from the community. Born in Toronto, Mr. Law was first encouraged to be an artist by a Grade 2 teacher in Peterborough where he was going to school at the time. “She ignored my doodles because I guess she saw that I have some potential,” he said. Mr. Law eventually took up teaching himself, but not before taking a number of artistic courses along the way. He has taken art programs at Sheridan College and also through the Parks and Recreation, as well as studying art at High School. The Ministry of Education hosted four summer courses for the visual arts and Mr. Law was enrolled there. He’s also taken training as a media specialist. A psychology major at Sir Wilfred Laurier University in Kitchener-Waterloo, he also attended teacher’s college in Peterborough. The artist first began teaching in a tworoom country school for grades 1-4 in a town near Tweed, called Kaladar. After two years he moved to Brampton in 1964 and has taught there ever since… Despite all his training, Mr. Law says his work is ‘mostly self-taught.” He has been a member of the Credit Valley Artisans and Palette and Pencil Club since 1973. He moved to Georgetown as a resident in 1969… When asked about people who have influenced his art he mentions his grade 2 teacher, former Georgetown resident Agnus Olive, local painter Frank Black and Sandy O’Connor of Whimsey’s. Ms. O’Connor is a great promotor and she was helpful in marketing his art, he said… Locally, Mr. Law has drawn dozens of popular landmarks, too numerous to mention them all. Some examples of his sketches are: the Norval Presbyterian Church, the old and new Georgetown High School, Nature’s Emporium in Glen Williams, the Georgetown Memorial Arena, the Limehouse General Store and the Limehouse Community Hall. His sketches are available as individual prints which are matted 6” x 8” and sell for about $2.25. His hasty notes are very popular and they come with envelopes, selling for about $2.75… He has been doing greeting cards for about eight years. You can learn a lot about the community you live in just by talking to the locals about the buildings, he said… As a teacher, Mr. Law said he enjoys giving his students the self-confidence with their artwork. “I teach them basic drawing, weaving and pottery,” he said. Mr. Law is married to Ruth who is a teacher and a convenor of the hospital gift shop. She is currently working towards a Master of Education. -Herald, 25 March 1987