Our Members

Lawrence, Sharon

Email: srdlawrence@sympatico.ca
Website:www.crywild.com

Sharon Frise Lawrence is a retired educator who specialized in Early Childhood Education and Visual Arts Programs and taught in Toronto and the Yukon Territory. She is a painter, weaver, interior designer/colourist, photographer, textile artist and writer.

In 1984, Sharon and her late husband, R.D. Lawrence - field biologist, journalist, naturalist and international author - moved to Haliburton County, and established Wolf Hollow, a private sanctuary where they raised injured and orphaned wildlife for more than twenty years.

Sharon sketched, photographed and documented the animals. Guests included wolves, cougar, foxes, raccoons, mink, beavers, porcupines, skunks, and a plethora of other two- and four-legged visitors.

R.D. Lawrence died on November 27, 2003; in 2006, Sharon gave his literary estate, personal belongings and memorabilia to the Minden Hills Cultural Centre. In 2007, 26 students from the Sustainable Building Program at Fleming College in Haliburton, constructed a straw bale building to house the collection.

R.D. Lawrence Place is dedicated to fostering a love of reading, and promoting the art of writing, while deepening one’s respect for Canada’s natural heritage.

Since 2007, Sharon has written script and done voice-overs for two short documentaries which are shown in the building. She continues to write script for visual programs soon to be shown regularly in R.D. Lawrence Place and available for purchase there.

On July 3, 2009, Sharon re-launched The Ghost Walker by R.D. Lawrence, with the help of Linda Middleton of Crystal Image Studio, who made the book print-ready and created a new cover using a drawing of Teka, (a cougar guest at the sanctuary). This is the second out-of-print book that Sharon has brought back to the marketplace.

Sharon is currently designing a new cover for Secret Go The Wolves, which will be in print in the next year, and is writing an Afterword for the book In Praise of Wolves. She is also working on a book of short stories that RD was unable to complete. She is in her third term as Secretary of HHWEN's Management Committee.

After selling Wolf Hollow in 2006, Sharon moved to the community of Minden Hills, where she serves as a reliable resource for R.D. Lawrence Place.