Diploma
in Sculpture, EmilyCarrCollege of Art and Design
1976 - 80
VancouverSchool of Art, Sculpture
and
Printmaking
1974 - 76
Graduated
from Fine Arts
Program, CapilanoCollege, North
Vancouver,
BC
1975
Student
Art Tour: Paris, London, Amsterdam
Selected Exhibitions:
2012
“Connected
Landscapes”, Watercolours by Lynn
& Toni Onley: AFather-Daughter
Exhibition, Art Beatus, Vancouver,
BC
2011
Summer Group
Show, Omega Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010
“Journeys
&
Discoveries”, Recent Paintings by Lynn Onley & Shera
Street, Insight Art
Gallery, GalianoIsland, BC
2009
Solo
Show, Summer Atrium
Show Series, Jenkins Showler Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
2009
Group
Show, Omega
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008
Group Show, Omega
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007
Solo
Show, Jenkins
Showler Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Solo
Show, Omega
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006
“West
Coast Memories”,
New Works by Lynn Onley, The New West Gallery, Sidney,
BC
“Remembering
Places”,
Two Person Show by Lynn Onley & Jaqueline Hugo, Omega
Gallery,Vancouver, BC
2005
“Waterscapes”,
Solo 28
Watercolour Exhibit, Creative Framing Company, Vancouver,
BC
2004
Memorial
Show of Lynn
& Toni Onley: Father and Daughter Show, Omega
Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
2003
Le
Gavroche Restaurant, Vancouver,
BC
2002
Art Exhibition Group Show, Grace
Church, Vancouver, BC
1998
Group
Exhibition of
Landscapes, Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, BC
1997
One
Woman Exhibition of
Landscape Watercolours, Torrefazione Italia Café
Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
1995
One
Woman Exhibition of
Landscape Watercolours, Torrefazione Italia Café
Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
One
Woman Exhibition
of Watercolours Collages & Ceramic Sculptures, Pat
Montgomery Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1994
“Spring Landscapes and
Lanterns”, A One-Woman
Exhibition of Watercolour Paintings & Ceramic Sculptures,
LuciaGallery, Vancouver, BC
1989
One
Woman Exhibition
of Ceramic Wall Pieces & Sculptures, Main Express
Café Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Two
Women Exhibition
of Ceramic Art, Onley & Thompson, Vancouver, BC
1988
One Woman Exhibition
of Ceramic Wall Pieces
& Sculptures, Main Express Café Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
1987
One Woman Exhibition
of Ceramic Figurative
Sculpture & Wall Pieces Artropolis, Juried Group
Show,Grunt Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
1986
Juried
Group Show, Pitt
International Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1985
Valentine
Exhibition, Juried
Group Show, Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
One Woman Exhibition of Paintings
& Ceramic Sculptures,
Non-Commercial Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1984
“Clay Sculpture 84”,
Juried Group Show,
Potters’ Guild of BC, Vancouver, BC
“Erotica, 84”, Invitational Group
Show, CourtneyArtGallery, BC
1983
One
Woman Exhibition
Show, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver,
BC
Workshops:
2010
Watercolour
Workshops on
Spanish Banks, Omega Gallery, Vancouver,
BC
Watercolour
Workshops on
Beach, InsightArtGallery, Galiano
Island,
BC
Recent Experiences:
2003
Continued
to paint
watercolours of the BC Landscape.Had
works accepted by the Ballard Lederer Gallery
and the Rendez-Vous Gallery in Vancouver
2002
Specialized
in
watercolour paintings of the BC landscape
2001
Continued
to paint in
studio and on location as well as to teach privately
2000
Worked
on large body of
paintings for future exhibitions
1999
Began teaching privately to
individual students
1998
Painting excursion to the Carribean
(St. Martin)
1997
Produced watercolour paintings for
1998 exhibition;
completed commission for large ceramic bearsculpture
1996
Produced
watercolour
paintings for 1997 exhibition
Worked
on a commissioned
large sculptural ceramic bear (Client: Patti Bolton)
1995
Produced
watercolour
paintings, collages, and ceramic sculptures for two
exhibitions
1994
Produced
watercolour
paintings, collages, and ceramic sculptures for 1994 and
1995 exhibitions
1993
Produced
watercolour
paintings, collages, and ceramic sculptures for 1994
exhibition
From 1982 – 1993 Lynn worked in
watercolour painting,
collage, and ceramic sculpture.During
this period she produced art for several exhibitions
and executed commissions
for large ceramic sculptures.From 1982
to 1987, she worked mainly in ceramic sculpture.
Biography:
Lynn
was born on
February 24th in Brantford, Ontario to Mary
Burrows and Toni Onley. Both of her parents
were artists who studied at
the Doon School of Fine Arts under Varley.
Her father immigrated from the
Isle of Man with his
family when he was nineteen.
Tragedy struck and her mother suddenly died when
she was two and a half.
Her mother was only twenty three.
As a young child, Lynn spent
three
years in Mexico (San
Miguel de
Allende) as her father had a scholarship to study
there. This left a deep
impression on her. Later on these images of
her vibrant life there
continued to emerge in her ceramics and
sculpture. She returned to Mexico as a
student
to study Mayan history.
In the years to come, it was evident that Lynn had the
same
driving force as her parents to create art.
She began her formal training
at CapilanoCollege, the
Vancouver
School of Art, then finishing at Emily Carr
College of Art in 1982. While
drawing is something Lynn always
pursued, she was inspired by many media, and at
the time, sculpture was her
passion.
In Lynn’s
mid-thirties
she began regularly flying and painting with her
father. These treasured
times were filled with adventure when going to
beautiful and remote BC
locations in her dad’s flying boat.
Although her dad had a great sense of humour, the
compliments from him did not
come easily. If it was good it was
good. He trained her to really
look. Now she has a critical eye and can see
if a composition
works. He was a wonderful teacher. Lynn misses
her
mentor and dad. It’s true that one lives on
in their art. It always
remains fresh. That is the beauty of
creativity.
