What a lovely winter!  I’m having a fantastic time creating art in my very austere canvas cocoon.  I am looking forward to the spring when Amish carpenters will build me a permanent structure, but am thrilled that thanks to the design of this tent and the fabulous wee wood stove I can continue paint and write (and drink tea) at the beautiful Atelier Ravenseyrie on the North Channel.  I feel so deeply immersed in the elements that my works are taking on essences of those sensations and I’m grateful to be able to experience this part of our property through the many moods of winter.  What will I do with all these new works I’m creating?  I’ve got plans…stay tuned!  For those of you who are not on Instagram and cannot check in with my daily posts there, I’ve put together a selection of images and videos that appear in some of the posts I’ve made.  Hope you enjoy them! Instagram:  @gerard.lynne Email:  ravenseyriestudio@icloud.com  

And so it happens that my new studio was not able to be built this year as I had hoped. Thankfully, after realizing we cannot do everything ourselves, we have local Amish carpenters lined up to build the permanent structure in the coming Spring. In the meantime I am attempting to make use of my temporary 4-season bell tent through the winter. We purchased this tent from Vevor  https://www.vevor.ca/yurt-tent-c_10246/4-season-5-8-people-large-waterproof-cotton-canvas-bell-tent-with-stove-p_010311775375    and put it up on a platform in the first week of June. We had already purchased a cast iron wood burning stove  https://smallwoodstoves.com/ca/mini-wood-stove/peanut-tiny-stove.html  for the yet-to-be-built permanent studio, which we installed into the tent in September.  Once the permanent studio is built, everything I’ve outfitted the tent with will be moved into the new building.   I call this temporary studio, Le Tente, and have been amazed at just ...

  Had a very productive summer!  I absolutely love this new phase of my career - working in complete solitude, most days outside - every day inspired by the North Channel in front of me and the forested bluff behind. I’ve created rock paintings for 20 years, using a Paleolithic-style technique and this year I’ve been teaching myself how to also etch and chisel images into the wonderful stone plaquettes I select from the beach. On rainy days, I worked inside Le Tente, painting and writing. And everyday there was tea, of course! My goal is to set up an online shop over the winter and there one will be able to purchase my original works, so stay tuned!

  A fine day for catching up on laundry chores, And even finer day to be working plein air on my Paleolithic-style rock paintings. Channelling an old photo of Rodin as reference.

Here it is now just past the summer solstice and the project to build me a studio overlooking our beach at home has only progressed as far as clearing the site, bringing up rocks from the beach for pier footings and felling timbers for the bones of the structure.  Such is the reality when just you and your husband are doing the project in between all the other usual seasonal projects that must be completed before winter.  Clearly there will not be a studio building for me to move into before winter comes this year.  But I was determined to have an atelier sooner than later so Kevin and I decided to put up a 4m four season bell tent for me to work from.  Even this took a bit more time than expected because we decided it would be wise to build a platform for the tent and the spring was so wonderfully wet that the wilderness road leading to the build site quickly turned to muck.  Our ATV can access it, as can the tractor - but the utility wagon could not handle the...