Lynne Schumacher was born Toronto, 1950 and started painting at an early age. She studied commercial art at Central Technical School under Doris McCarthy before turning her attention to landscape painting. Many hundreds of hours were spent in the Northern Ontario forests researching, sketching, photographing and painting her subjects. A considerable amount of her childhood was also spent in Nova Scotia where she developed a love for the sea and the Maritime way of life.
Her previous work was based on close studies of trees, their many textures, moods and the effects of the various seasons upon them. She developed a great love and respect for nature and painstakingly applied paint to canvas to capture a startling realism and a boldness of colour and texture. Her landscapes show the wonderfully varied beauty of the Canadian land.
She started exhibiting in 1973 at the Arts-in-the-Parks and then subsequently the Markham Art Show, Carling’s Art Show, Toronto City Hall and many other annual group shows in the Toronto area. She has participated in the following art sales events:
- Toronto Art Expo
- Kempenfest (Barrie)
- Muskoka Art Show
- Junction District Arts Festival
- Distillery District Arts Festival
- Burlington Art Market
- Credit Village Marina Art Show
- University of Guelph Art Exhibition
- Ottawa Art Festival
- Riverdale Art Walk
- Buckhorn Fine Arts Festival
- McMichael Volunteers Art Show and Sale
- The Artist Project Toronto
- Headwaters Art Festival
- Arts on the Credit
Her paintings will be found enhancing numerous collections by both private and corporate collectors throughout Ontario, across Canada, the United States, England, Germany and China.
She has received various letters of commendation from noted Canadian galleries. She has been written up in the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Mississauga Times and the Brampton Guardian. She has won first place awards in various art competitions.
In addition to landscape painting, she has expanded her horizons to portray the rich diversity of our community in the people and their colourful cultural contribution to the Canadian mosaic.
Her paintings operate on many levels involving form colour and place. They aim to visibly document her thoughts and try to express her vision, pulling the viewer into another world. Lately, her artistic visions have taken on a more abstracted quality, experimenting with different media and allowing me to develop new ideas.
She is a member of the Colour and Form Society and Ontario Society of Artists. She is also a participant in the Art Gallery of Ontario Arts Rental programme, the Art Gallery of Hamilton Arts Rental programme and the Arts Etobicoke Rental programme.
Her recent entries to juried shows include:
- Beaux Arts Brampton various shows in 2006 – 2017
- Colour and Form Society Juried Art Shows 2006 – current
- Colour and Form Society Two by Two traveling show 2007, 2008, 2019
- Etobicoke Arts Group Juried Art Shows 2005 – 2011
- Franklin Carmichael Open Juried Show 2012
- Lakeshore Arts Juried Art Show 2006 – 2016
- Neilson Park Creative Centre various shows in 2006, 2007
- Ontario Society of Artists Juried Art Shows 2008 – current
- Peel Juried Art Show – 2004 – 2008
- Society of Canadian Artists Open Juried shows 2009 – 2012
- Uxhibition 2009 – 2014
- Visual Arts Mississauga Juried Art Show 2005 – 2017
Her web site can be found at: www.lynneschumacher.com
