Graeme Shaw is a Canadian artist whose works have appeared in fine art galleries from 1971 to the present. He has had in excess of 100 one man shows in a variety of galleries over the years and his work is now held in numerous public, corporate, and private collections internationally. The government of the NWT has used him extensively to chronicle the north and the legislators of that region. His work is on permanent display in the Legislative Assembly in Yellowknife, a region he lived in and goes back to frequently. He has produced a huge body of work from the Canadian western arctic which has found its way into collections around the world. He was trained from a child by a mother who was an artist and spent his youth being mentored by numerous professional artists his mother arranged for him to study under. Though his artistic influences over the years have been many, he gives credit to Robert Genn for being a friend and a mentor from his earliest days as a professional arti