Gavin Lynch

Gavin Lynch’s landscape paintings vibrate with bold colours, texture, and a layered approach that merges the real and surreal. Drawing from art history, climate discourse, and speculative fiction, his work reinvents the genre of Canadian landscape painting for a contemporary world in flux. Lynch’s paintings combine contrasting pictorial elements and painterly applications in a manner that resembles collage. His paintings embrace the idea of a “pictorial maximalism”, featuring tessellated compositions of saturated colours that culminate in contemplative spaces that speak to our changing relationship with both the natural environment and the landscape genre. Lynch holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Ottawa. His work has been exhibited at major institutions including Saatchi Gallery, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Ottawa Art Gallery. Lynch has exhibited widely both in Canada and abroad, including solo and group presentations in Sydney, London, New York Los Angeles and Berlin.