Patti Dyment

Canmore

Acrylic

Biography

Patti Dyment was born in Alberta and has lived in Canmore since 1984. She began painting as a teen in Fort McMurray. She is primarily self-taught, but enjoyed one term at the Saint Lawrence College of Fine Arts and Technology, and the second-year Bachelor of Fine Art and Design Program at the University of Alberta.

Patti has worked in a broad variety of media and styles from watercolour photo-realism to innovative, high-key acrylics - iced on, scratched through still lifes (with shiny bits). She has taught various classes in painting and drawing and was the president of the Canmore Artists and Artisans Guild for three and a half years.

She has had solo exhibitions at the Timberline Gallery in Cochrane, and the Sunny Raven and Avens Galleries in Canmore. Patti was juried to participate in two exhibitions at the Whyte Museum in Banff, as well as the 1988 Olympic Arts Festival exhibition. She has been a regular participant in CAAG group and juried shows, including a two woman exhibition.

In 1991 Patti suspended artistic pursuits to raise her two children, producing only occasional pieces, especially portraits of children. Fifteen years later she is now creating mountainscapes and wildlife paintings in acrylic and clay etching.

"Painting realism, whether wildlife, mountains or people, leads one to study intently, almost steep in, that which is beautiful around us. Expressing that beauty through the filter of one's own personality and craftsmanship is uniquely rewarding, emotionally and spiritually."