A graduate of the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, Morton Baslaw studied watercolour with Ruth Van Sickle Ford. He fashions his paintings using a technique based on the interpretive realism in still life, landscapes, cityscapes, and seascapes. Morton's work is widely exhibited throughout Canada with the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Ontario Society of Artists. He is also the founding president of the Ottawa Watercolour Society. Morton is a winner of the G. Allan Burton Award, has exhibited with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Cultural Branch of the Government of Alberta, Visual Arts Ottawa, Wallack Galleries of Ottawa and Studio Colleen, and is represented in national and private collections. Morton is also a recognized designer, lecturer, and a veteran instructor on the faculty of the Ottawa School of Art.