Sonia van de Haar first studied Painting at the Canberra Institute of the Arts, ANU, and Architecture at the University of NSW. She works under the title, Lymesmith, working between colour, architecture and art, creating inventive and architectural sensitive colour concepts and painted interventions for buildings, infrastructure, walls, street scapes, public places, landscapes and interiors.

A recent large scale artwork The Runnel, is a 150metre long road painting for ELYSIUM in Byron Bay. Through incorporating site specific material palettes, her ambition was to express and enhance onlookers understanding of the laneway.