Michael Lawrence
Biography
Michael Lawrence attended the same art school as three famous pop stars, but unlike them didn’t get involved in music, instead taking a job in a graphic design studio in London where, before long, he morphed into a photographer.
As a photographer he took pictures for advertising agencies, newspapers and publishers, of pop stars, politicians, fashion models, and tens of thousands of
total strangers. He has also been an antiques dealer and a printer (photographic and silkscreen), has co-owned and run two art galleries, made hundreds of paintings, drawings and experimental digital images, and published around forty-five books for children and five for adults.
Books of his have been widely translated, including into Welsh, Slovakian, Turkish and Chinese. As a children’s author he has visited a great many schools, appeared on Blue Peter by viewer request, and uttered codswallop on the stages of many a literary festival. He no longer puts in personal appearances unless disguised as someone else entirely.
