Desselliers, Lyse

Lyse Deselliers was born in Quebec City and obtained her DVM in 1989. While pursuing her career as a veterinarian in Ottawa and then in Calgary, she continued to develop her artistic skills as a painter, taking night classes at the Alberta College of Art and studying under Karen Swearengen’s guidance. Deselliers has shown her work in Calgary, Okotoks, Canmore and Waterton National Park, Alberta and Penticton, BC . Deselliers has been a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists since 2007 and in 2017 won the FCA People Choice Award as well as second price for her painting “Time stamped and sealed”. She has paintings now residing in collections throughout North America and London, UK. Currently, she is focusing on creating larger pieces in an attempt to better capture the monumental beauty of the Okanagan, using aerial photographs of the area surrounding her hometown of Penticton.