{"id":62584,"date":"2019-02-25T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=62584"},"modified":"2019-02-25T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T22:36:33","slug":"concern-for-muskokas-water-leads-to-unique-body-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/concern-for-muskokas-water-leads-to-unique-body-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern for Muskoka’s water leads to unique body of work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was part worry and part curiousity that led Muskoka artist Lynda Lynn to explore the region’s waters through art, but not in the way you might expect.<\/p>\n

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Lynn spent 35 years as a Muskoka real estate broker and says that in that time she saw enormous changes in local lakes. She became more and more concerned about water both here and in North America in general.<\/p>\n

“I felt that people really wouldn\u2019t do much about it unless they understood the whys, which I didn\u2019t really either, other than the normally talked about issues like leaving a natural zone, taking care of septic systems, not dumping pollutants,” she says.<\/p>\n

An interest in learning more about the things that keep our water healthy and what does not, specifically microscopic organisms, led her to Dr. Norman Yan, Ph.D. FRSC, biologist, and expert on this subject.<\/p>\n

With Dr. Yan’s encouragement and armed with the scientific information he provided, Lynn produced a series of paintings which were displayed in a solo show in 2015 and at Watershed Wonders at the Muskoka Discovery Centre, as well as at Queen\u2019s University and the University of Birmingham, UK. They also resulted in talks at Nipissing University and at the Muskoka Discovery Centre.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Norman Yan has kindly provided descriptions about the fascinating life in our lakes so that viewers of the paintings would make some sense of them,” notes Lynn. “He has been enthusiastic about how art and science can combine to show just how they can work together to educate the public, and I have learned so much. It\u2019s but a fascinating drop in the bucket, and I can\u2019t thank him enough.”<\/p>\n

Lynn’s paintings will be on display in Partners Hall at the Algonquin Theatre from March 1 to April 15, 2019 for her Below the Surface II <\/em>show. She will host an opening reception on Saturday, March 2 from 1-3 p.m., and she will hold an artist’s talk with Dr. Yan on Saturday, April 6 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Among Lynn’s paintings is Girls Night Out<\/em> (pictured above). She shares these details about the painting:<\/p>\n

“This lavender-clad grandmother Daphnia<\/em> is about to send her granddaughters off to meet the boys in blue before winter sets in. (The darker water, with an indication of ice, along with the colour of the lily pads, tell us the time of year when this activity takes place.) Swags of blue green algae decorated with diatoms create a festive atmosphere. She is feeding the girls Desmid and diatom cookies, chock full of the omega-3 fatty acids they need for their babies, and she has a special interest in these girls. After all, she induced a change in her daughters that determined the gender mix of her grandchildren. But the girls have a gauntlet of dangerous predators to run before meeting up with the boys. Can you spot the Hydra<\/em>, the carnivorous phantom midge larva and the lurking spiny water flea? The last is particularly scary: it has driven several populations of Daphnia<\/em> in local lakes to extinction.”<\/p>\n

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