Lori Ridgeway is a landscape oil painter, originally from Alberta now living in Ottawa, Ontario. Her paintings have been inspired mainly by the forest, grasses marshes and shorelines mainly in and around Ottawa. 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 ones. Her paintings have been accepted into juried shows locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and have won jury awards, including three Best in Show awards, two of them in 2023.