Elizabeth Lennie
Story and Stardust
July 9 - August 2, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11, 2 - 5 PM | Artist in Attendance
In Lennie's paintings, swimmers glide through northern lakes, sunlight dances across the water and childhood moments seem suspended in time. Yet beneath every image lies a deeper narrative.
If, as the exhibition title suggests, we are all made of stardust, then stories are what give shape to our lives. Through paintings grounded in memory but reaching toward something larger, Elizabeth Lennie invites us to reflect on the stories that have shaped them—and the ones still being written.
Elizabeth Lennie lives and practices in mid-town Toronto. She works with oil paint on canvas, layering thin washes with thicker impasto. The images are often figurative and explore the memory myth of summer. The paintings are the map of her world, in both abstract and narrative form. She looks for archetypes, in an attempt to explore notions of self and community within the resonance of shared memory. By isolating and extracting vibrant colors in a signature soft-focus style, the memory myth of summer is explored and journaled in a series of liquid landscapes on canvas.
Her paintings are collected both nationally and internationally, and are included in the collections of the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame, the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Naples Grande Hotel Florida, Centre Hospital San Francisco.
Story and Stardust
July 9 - August 2, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11, 2 - 5 PM | Artist in Attendance
In Lennie's paintings, swimmers glide through northern lakes, sunlight dances across the water and childhood moments seem suspended in time. Yet beneath every image lies a deeper narrative.
If, as the exhibition title suggests, we are all made of stardust, then stories are what give shape to our lives. Through paintings grounded in memory but reaching toward something larger, Elizabeth Lennie invites us to reflect on the stories that have shaped them—and the ones still being written.
Elizabeth Lennie lives and practices in mid-town Toronto. She works with oil paint on canvas, layering thin washes with thicker impasto. The images are often figurative and explore the memory myth of summer. The paintings are the map of her world, in both abstract and narrative form. She looks for archetypes, in an attempt to explore notions of self and community within the resonance of shared memory. By isolating and extracting vibrant colors in a signature soft-focus style, the memory myth of summer is explored and journaled in a series of liquid landscapes on canvas.
Her paintings are collected both nationally and internationally, and are included in the collections of the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame, the University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Naples Grande Hotel Florida, Centre Hospital San Francisco.
