Welcome to my website, it's so nice to have you here! Let me introduce myself...

...oh, dear, and here comes the existential bit... who am I?

I am an artist, illustrator and writer living between Winnipeg(ish), London (Notting Hill), and Cape Town (soon). I draw and write compulsively and I fidget when I don't have a pen in my hand.

This writing and drawing usually take the form of children's books or journals. I have one children's book published, called "Magic at the Museum." It was short-listed for best illustrated book at the Manitoba Book Awards and spent two weeks at #2 on the McNally Robinson best-seller list. Small accomplishments, I know, but I'm still very proud of them!

As for all the important stuff:

BA Art History University of Manitoba

MA Art History Courtauld Insitute of Art

MA Illustration Camberwell College of Art

Bibliography

Brubaker-Zehr, Scott. "Dying and rising: The church through the eyes of Paul." Canadian Mennonite. Vol 12, No 4 18 February 2008: 4-6. (One illustration)

"Canada Post". April 2008-November 2009. (editorial illustration)

"Carillon News". 14 August - May 2009. Biweekly cartoons

Cleaver, Laura, Kathryn Gerry and Jim Harris, eds. "Art and Nature: Studies in Medieval Architecture." London: Courtauld Institute of Art, 2009. (3 illustrations)

Heinrichs, Jane. "Magic at the Museum." Steinbach, Manitoba: Wide Horizons Ink Publishing, 2008.

Kousser, Rachel. "Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture: The allure of the Classical," Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. (One illustration)

Lowden, John. "Medieval Ivories and Works of Art in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario." London: Paul Holberton, forthcoming 2008. (One illustration)

Stirling, Lea M. East Cemetery at Leptiminus. Forthcoming. (Illustrations of approximately 200 skeletons and graves, with grave goods and architectural reconstructions and 400 pottery reconstructions)

Stirling, Lea M. The Learned Collector: Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. (Nine illustrations)

Stirling, Lea M. "Aspects of Punic and Roman Kiln Design in North Africa." Article to appear in Africa Romana 16: Mobilità delle persone e dei popoli, dinamiche migratorie, emigrazioni ed immigrazione nelle province occidentali dell'impero romano Manuscript submitted Feb. 05, accepted, Forthcoming 2007. (Two illustrations)

Stirling, Lea M. "Pagan Statues in Late Antique Corinth: Sculpture from the Late Roman Domus." Athens: Hesperia. Pages 89-161, Volume 77, Number 1, January-March 2008. (Two illustrations)

Stone, David L. and Lea M. Stirling. Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Currently in production, Forthcoming 2007. (Three illustrations)