Lyn Ellison has a passion for wildlife. She paints in a distinctive style using rich earthy tones and subtle hues that have an ability to capture that special moment.
Lyn studied art at the East Sydney Tech in the 60’s, going on to teach art for a number of years before becoming a full time studio potter and sculptor. She later spent six years in England where she held numerous exhibitions before returning to Australia.
Lyn has spent most of her life in various areas around NSW, but in 1987 she moved to her current home in the Coomera Valley of South East Queensland. Lyn and husband Don, then spent two years turning dairy pasture back into rain forest, they discovered platypus in the river, possums on the roof and slowly more bird life returned to the area. It was here that Lyn started to paint seriously, inspired in part by the idiosyncrasies of a white backed magpie that had become part of her extended family.
In her paintings, she strives to portray some of the comedy and drama of the bird life around her and capture that special character and feeling of a particular moment; be it the innocence of a young magpie trotting off with its first grub or the laughter in a Kookaburra’s eye as it watches the antics of its young.
-500.jpg "Brave Venturer - Lyn Ellison (Giclee print on paper)")
-500.jpg "Magpie Moment - Lyn Ellison (Giclee print on paper)")
-500.jpg "Mountain Magic - Lyn Ellison (Giclee print on paper)")
-500.jpg "Pigeon Harmony - Lyn Ellison (Giclee print on paper)")
-500.jpg "River Revellers - Lyn Ellison (Giclee print on paper)")
