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Patty Lynes has had an adventurous career as a landscape architect and urban designer, 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.  She has lived in Europe and traveled extensively.   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 working out of her Cotton Factory studio.  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. 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.