LYSE DESELLIERS

Painting, Acrylic

City: Penticton, British Columbia

Website: www.deselliers.ca

Facebook: www.facebook.com/lyseboras

Instagram: @lysefresco

Artist Statement: I like to say that I paint what I like. But this would be oversimplifying what really brings me to spend hours composing then attempting to capture in paint a personal impression of the landscape or cityscape I am rendering. Just as the Renaissance Art Movement was recruited in channeling certain ideas of more enlighten living such as kindness and the search of knowledge, I want to make art not just for art’s sake. My concerns and interest in areas of environmental conservation as well as my educational background inform my choice of subject. I want to engage the viewer by depicting beautiful landscapes and use this medium to hopefully create first a feeling of connection which then can lead to an active response in view of our present situation in the natural world. It could be seen as a kind of Artistic Activism. Important ideas should not be communicated only at an intellectual level but also shared using emotional means. That’s where art comes in and that’s why I paint what I paint.

Biography: Lyse Deselliers was born in Quebec City and obtained her DVM from the University of Montreal in 1989. While pursuing her career as a veterinarian in Ottawa and then in Calgary, she continued to develop her artistic skills as a painter, taking night classes at the Alberta College of Art and studying under Karen Swearengen’s guidance. Her body of work mainly consists of Acrylic landscape and cityscape paintings along with public art murals. Deselliers has shown her work in Calgary, Okotoks, Canmore and Waterton National Park, Alberta as well as Kelowna and Penticton, BC. She has been involved in numerous fundraising events where the sale of her artwork benefited various organizations such as Amnesty International and World Wildlife Fund. Deselliers has been a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists since 2007 and in 2017 won the FCA People Choice Award as well as second price for her painting “Time stamped and sealed”. She has paintings now residing in collections throughout North America and London, UK. Currently, she is focusing on creating larger pieces in an attempt to better capture the monumental beauty of the Okanagan, using aerial photographs of the area surrounding her hometown of Penticton.

Galleries: Tutt Street Gallery, Kelowna; Front Street Gallery, Penticton; Okanagan Art Gallery, Osoyoos; Tumbleweed Gallery, Penticton

Solo shows:
Osoyoos Art Gallery, April 2021 (upcoming)
Santé Penticton , Front street gallery, July 2018.
Blue Ice, Red Fire and the Gold seal, Framed on Fifth, Calgary May 2016
Projects abroad Fundraiser, Calgary, November 2015
Calgary Winter club 2012 - 2014
Take the next detour, Swirl Fine Art and Design, Calgary, April 2012

2 women show:
Art in my Park, Park in my Art, Calgary Ralph Klein Park June 2011
Art in my Park, Park in my Art, Calgary Reader Rock Garden Oct 2010,
A Necessary Vision Canmore 2009, Okotoks Art Gallery 2010