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I don’t want to simplify compositions, I try to paint the uncleared wildness of the tangled and gnarled landscape around lake Weslemkoon where I live. I hike the unseen paths only trodden by animals to reach untouched scenes to photograph and paint.
I see shapes in colors and minute contrasting light and shadows, overlapping form and texture of undergrowth where even trees in death are transcendent. Painting wildlife, water and wetlands, I prefer to use oils and mixed media. Primarily self-taught, I worked most of my life in hard edged industrial settings to provide for my family until retirement finally afforded time to indulge my passion for art. I had a small pottery studio in my youth and went to Haliburton school of Art upon retirement to explore ceramics. I found my love of art rekindled in painting the landscape. I hope my passion for our natural world shows in my work for you to enjoy.
Lynne Vegter
I came to Canada over sixty years ago now and fell in love with its people, landscape and lakes. I had a short career in pottery and painting, being mostly self taught, until family circumstances left me a single parent.
I started working for Ontario Hydro as a mechanical technician, the furthest from art I could be I suppose. But my final role as a mechanical field Engineer affirmed my love of detail and complex patterns. When I left work, I took art courses at Haliburton school of art, and am still learning and loosening my style.
I want my paintings to betray my passion for capturing my moments in tangled forests, observing the elusive wildlife around Lake Weslemkoon, where I am lucky enough to have my studio.
Painting this wilderness is a challenge I welcome, hoping to continue to diversify and tell more than just the story of the landscape, but describe my intense feelings when I connect with it.
I want my paintings to show the delicate balance between humans and the animals that share their environment with us. Always learning.
Lynne’s paintings can be seen in the Art Gallery of Bancroft, A place For The Arts and Longmuir’s Hidden Cove Cottages. Her upcoming shows will be in Belleville Gallery 121 mid-February to March 2024, and in the Art Gallery Of Bancroft for the month of May 2024.
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