Elizabeth Lennie is a contemporary Canadian artist that explores the symbolic nature of water. Water has been the backdrop to the significant events in her life. The reconstruction of radiant moments that exist in memory define the images Lennie chooses to paint. Swimming in the liquid landscapes of northern Ontario and the aqua waters of the Caribbean are major inspirations that Elizabeth draws from. She works with oil paint on canvas, layering thin washes with thicker impasto to create her mesmerizing scenes. The images are often figurative and explore the memory myth of summer to create these ephemeral moments. The paintings are the map of Lennie’s world, in both abstract and narrative form. Lennie graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in Interior Design and attended prominent institutions such as AGO Gallery School and the Toronto School of Art in the early 2000s. In Lennie’s work, she looks for archetypes to explore notions of self and community within the resonance of shared memory. By isolating and extracting vibrant colors in a signature soft-focus style, the memory myth of summer is explored and journaled in a series of liquid landscapes on canvas for viewers to reminisce over. Elizabeth Lennie’s artwork can be found in many corporate collections including the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame Art Collection, the Centre Hospital in San Francisco, the University of Virginia’s Medical Centre and Children’s Hospital, the University of Virginia’s Orthopedic Centre, The Breakers in Palm Beach, Soho Myriad Hotels, Sandals Resorts in the Bahamas, and the Naples Grande Hotel. “You, my dear friend, have the wisdom to see the beauty of where you are, while you are there, and that ability is as rare as...the world becoming a skating rink over which you can fly." - Johnny Wales, Sado Island, Japan