If you love great stories and art that tells them, you and I share something in common!

Hi,

The way I look at the world compels me to tell subtle and evocative stories about the elusive nature of beauty where I find it.

Beauty does not exist in a vacuum. It's a pattern that emerges from a tenuous, intricate of visual relationships.

Whether it's through the human form or ordinary objects, I strive to tell the story of these patterns as the coalesce around me.

These stories that I tell through my art are important to share because beauty reveals vital truths about the world within and around us.
It inspires us to overcome the relentless inertia of our busy, modern society and transcend our ordinary selves.

Beauty energizes us to take action and strive to become our best selves. It's transformative because it raises our collective consciousness in ways that change the world for the better.

I hope you enjoy my art and that it inspires you to strive to be your best self.

With Gratitude,
Lynn Bertrand

Resume/CV

1992 Ritins School of Decorative Arts and Design Toronto, On

1993-1999 Decorative Art Business, contacting to Interior Designers, private, professional and public institutions, Toronto, On

2004 Presented Custom Frame Workshop Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, On

2004-2008 Group shows Academy of Realist Art, Toronto. On

2004 Custom Frame Workshop Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, On

2005 Semi-final Second Art Renewal Centre Salon Competition

2006 Sherway Garden Group Show, Toronto, On

2007 Group Show Founder’s College, South Boston, Mass.

2008 Graduate of the Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, On

2008 Board advisor for The Digital and Visual Arts Degree/Diploma of Humber College Toronto, to present

2010 Canvas and Paper group Show Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club, Toronto, On

2010 ALS Silent Auction fundraising sold

2011 The Academy Way juried Hamilton On Conservatory of the Arts

2011 Member Arts & letters Toronto, On

2011-2012 all juried shows Arts & Letters to present

2012 Power Point Presentation “Universal Feelings in the Light of Realism” Accredited ARIDO/IDA

2012 Blended Genres Exhibit and sale Elizabeth Gallery and Showroom and The Women’s Art Association Toronto, On

2012 Elected to Society of Canadian Artists

2012 Finalist American Women Artist 5th National Juried competition and Exhibition Arizona, US

2012 Newbury Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Arizona US

2013-2018 Life Painting and Drawing Convener Arts & Letters Club to present

2013-present Life drawing teacher Willowdale Group of Artists Toronto, to present

2013-2016 SCA juried shows both Member and National Shows

2016 Power Point Presentation Bradgate Arms, Toronto, On Education Series and Show Portraiture

2015-2016 Commissioned portraiture work Kyra Millan accomplished professional Opera Coloratura Soprano Drawing and Painting

2017 Studio Work On Going!

2019-2020 Portrait Commission

PRESS

2012 October published Western Art Collector and Southwest Art Magazine

2016 Video Portrait of Kyra “Happiness is a Blank Canvas” mailto:http://roamnewroads.ca/happiness-is-a-blank-canvas/