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The view from the top of Montreal’s Place Ville Marie is breathtaking, whether you’re seeing it for the first time or the 101st. Beaver Lake on Mount Royal is a wonder during any season — verdant and lush in spring and summer, brilliant with autumn foliage reflected in the water, serene and white in winter. Walk through Westmount and note the red brick on so many houses, warm and rich.

These images are among the many vibrant and colourful paintings in Love Montreal, the latest solo exhibition by painter and printmaker Lynda Schneider Granatstein. It opens Thursday at Galérie Cazeault.

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Is the show a love letter to the place she has called home all her life? She thought a minute and responded: “It is really a love letter from Montreal to me — from my own little Montreal.”

Schneider Granatstein, who has called Montreal home her entire life, has been a professional artist for more than 40 years. She has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in Canada and internationally and been in more than 100 juried and group shows. Always, she has painted what has meaning to her — from people and interiors she held close and dear and still-life images incorporating such objects as her grandmother’s teacups to the dancers from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal she has been observing and painting for years.