Lori Ridgeway is a landscape oil painter, originally from Alberta now living in Ottawa, Ontario. Her paintings are inspired mainly by the forest, grasses marshes and shorelines mainly in and around Ottawa or the Canadian Shield. Her focus is on expressing patterns of line, shapes, colour, and especially light and shadow in the near landscape – complexity that lies below the superficial and, often, everyday notice, but which forms the coherent whole. Her artistic goal is to express extraordinary moments from ordinary scenes and generate a new way of seeing our surroundings. Her paintings have been accepted into juried shows locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and have won jury awards, including five Best in Show awards, four of them in 2023 and 2024, all from different paintings. She is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists.