About Lynn

Vancouver-based artist and graphic designer, Lynn Budny has been creating art since childhood. She has always had strong love of nature, spending many childhood summers on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, inspired by the forests and coastal shorelines. As a young adult Lynn lived in a small town in Alberta where she was inspired by her horse, the rolling hills, and Rocky Mountains.

After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary, she went on to earn a Diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration from Capilano University.

Working full time as a graphic designer she devotes her spare time painting, exhibiting her work and attending artist residencies. For more than 30 years Lynn has been a dedicated oil painter, she loves the way the medium lends itself to the vibrant and translucent quality of her style and subject matter. Expressing her emotions through depictions of dramatic oceans, skies and landscapes, each work represents a moment in time of her personal and artistic journey–captured onto canvas.

Lynn is an Active Member with the Federation of Canadian Artists. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and is held in permanent and private collections in Canada, USA and Europe. She has been an artist in residence in Skopelos, Greece, Orquevaux, France and Vallauris, France and in 2024 Essere Artist Residency, Italy.

For inquiries, please contact lynnbudny@gmail.com

Cirriculum Vitae

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Artist Statement

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. - Emile Zola

Painting is my outlet when life is hard, easy, ugly and beautiful. It has always been the anchor to give me a sense of calm, control and confidence when all else could be chaos. I've been creating art for as long as I can remember and I couldn’t imagine a life without it.

I use nature symbolically to portray my emotions through the images I paint. The style of my work is described as realist impressionism. My subjects are realistic, with the intent is to depict them in a dynamic, graphic way which is reflective of my sensibilities as a graphic designer.

My work is a visual testament of my journey as an artist to live my life out loud on canvas.

Residencies

AIR Vallauris Artist Residency
Vallauris, France
May - June, 2023

Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist Residency
Orquevaux, France
April 2023

The Skopoles Foundation for the Arts
Skepoles, Greece
2022

Memberships

Active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists
http://artists.ca/

South Surrey White Rock Art Society
https://sswras.com/

Richmond Arts Coalition
https://richmondartscoalition.com/