Batik is usually associated with abstract patterns on Indonesian textiles. Gunvor Lynch uses this ancient wax-resist dyeing technique to create realistically colored portraits of birds, wildflowers, fish and sailboats. She discovered batik in Denmark, her mother’s native country, and taught herself the craft while raising seven children. Both the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society have sold her work. Although her subject matter includes exotic tropical birds, the most popular are the most familiar, such as loons, shorebirds and cardinals. Each of her pictures is an original, attractively matted and framed.

Gunny Lynch lives in Framingham and has a beach cottage in Scituate, Massachusetts. She has been associated with the Clever Hand for more than 30 years.