Patty Lynes has had an adventurous career as a landscape architect, all the while continuing to develop as an artist over these past 35 years.   She has worked in Ontario, B.C. Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong concurrently studying and developing as a visual artist.  Her studio training includes the University of Guelph, London Polytechnic, U.K., OCAD University, Emily Carr University of Art & Design (ECUAD) and Dundas Valley School of Art (DVSA).    She is now based in Hamilton.   Environmental design and visual communication are areas of her professional practice that have influenced the development of her art concerned with spatial impression and sense of place.  Her love of drawing from nature began in childhood.  She is influenced by her explorations of landscapes and wilderness.  She began canoe tripping in the 70’s and finds this the best way to seek inspiration and solitude.  Working primarily in oils she paints with loose gestural brushwork to capture the spirit of place.  Her paintings strive to encompass in gesture the natural world especially through the changing light of day.  Painting at sunrise of an interior lake or sketching as the sun sets to the quiet and calm are her happy places. 

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Drawing and painting are what brings her peace, strength, and joy. Her landscapes convey an impression of place emphasizing form, colour, and light.

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She has exhibited in Ontario, B.C. and abroad, including the Artist Project, Art in the Workplace (AWP)/McMaster Innovation Park, Earl’s Court Gallery, Back Alley Gallery and The Cotton Factory, Hamilton.

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Landscape has meaning. Rivers reflect, clouds portend.  Significance is there to be discovered, inherent and ascribed, shaped by what senses perceive, what instinct and experience read as significant, what minds know. 

_ Anne Whiston Spirn, The Language of Landscape