A title image that I designed, but decided not to use. Greetings from Manitoulin Island !   My name is Lynne Gerard.  Using the combined mediums of painting, poetry and calligraphy I offer up the results of my creative endeavours in the small gallery that conjoins my lakeside studio. My Ravenseyrie Studio & Art Gallery has operated out of the Gore Bay Harbour Centre since December of 2006, (a number of years before the municipality received a bundle of grants to completely renovated this old ship of a building).  The building was quite derelict back then - keeping a studio in those rough conditions felt quite bohemian - but the place has absolutely always been the perfect spot for me to create. Over these many years, I have been devoting my focus on maintaining and operating the "brick and mortar" gallery so that it always has ample inventory of my existing products yet also displays my new works.  Because of this dedication, I have refrain...