The Ravenseyrie Art Gallery has been open for sometime now, albeit on truncated hours as the Gore Bay Harbour Centre is following a cautious reopening due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Several of the shops/studios are closed completely until the virus is no longer a threat.  The marine museum is closed as is the lower level. Four of our tenants have been willing to be open to the public on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 4pm. For myself, I have been keeping my usual hours (Tuesdays thru Saturdays, 10am to 4pm) all through the pandemic lockdown and am continuing in that manner even now, though the rest of the building may be a darkened cavern at times.  Should visitors come on one of the days when the Harbour Centre is closed, they may come around to my studio door on the 2nd floor lakeside of the building and ask for permission to view my gallery.  Facemasks and sanitized hands are part of our protocol.  I provide wipes I make using alcohol and tea tr...

Destemido - Fearless One Original Sumi-e by Lynne Gerard The majority of the painting and writing I do is influenced and inspired by elements I find very close to home.  Living on the Ravenseyrie Sorraia Mustang Preserve assures that a number of the works seen in the gallery are of noble equines. As I work on building up the webpage for my Fine Art Greeting Cards , I have been taking photos and typing up descriptors of the many card designs I offer in my gallery.  These cards come under different categories, for example, "Birthday", "New Baby", "Just Because", etc. and are each printed, assembled and hand detailed right here in my studio on the bay.   I also offer Christmas and Holiday Cards, but mostly these are in a different type of card style requiring less handwork and are grouped within the webpage I've titled, Fine Art Notecards . I do however have two Holiday/Christmas cards that I have made that are of the same style as my ...

Spring Thunderstorm Over Ravenseyrie East Bluff, Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island Ontario, Canada This blog entry was first published in the Journal of Ravenseyrie on June 4, 2016. The MOST important source of inspiration for painting ideas is our own lives... and what we like most. ( Jack Dickerson ) I have been influenced by paintings I have seen in books, and in museums, not because they defined success but because they suggested possibilities. ( Eleanor Blair ) Every day I wake up thankful to have made choices in life that make it possible to live here on Manitoulin Island. The dynamic elementals of our life on the Ravenseyrie Sorraia Mustang Preserve provide me with infinite inspiration all times of the year and catalyze creative ideas that number greater than my mind and body are capable of sustaining. The big sky, the roaming winds, the shifting colours and the indigenous flora and fauna - especially the horses - permeate my senses whether I a...

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...