About Lynn

My passion is interpreting the figurative form using color and line to tell the tale that I conjure up. As a painter, I tell my stories.

INTERVIEWER: How long have you been an artist?

Me: As long as I can remember. My mother and grandmother were both artists. I was influenced and encouraged from a young age. I always knew this was my path.

INTERVIEWER: Where does your inspiration come from?

Me: Words are very provocative. I hear a phrase or quote I like and my brain conjures up imagery and a story emerges. I use journals to keep track and sketch out these ideas. They start the conversation that leads to a particular painting or sculpture.

I’m continually fascinated by other cultures and travel prolifically to observe and explore firsthand. Of course, these influences find their way into my work.

INTERVIEWER: You use a lot of Circus type imagery in your art. What does this mean to you?

Me: It’s not so much the Circus itself but the characters and their backstories that fascinated me since I was a child. We attended the Circus often.

Costumes, masks, and makeup give us one illusion but what's the true narrative of the person underneath it all?

This could be why I am drawn toward the Mask. What lies beneath? What face shall I wear today? The mask is brilliant. It can reveal and conceal at the same time.

My love of dance and dramatic theatre is displayed in my work. These genres allow us to escape into a different world where the art of storytelling reigns.

I want my art to reveal snippets of these worlds. Through imagery and color, I want to allow the viewer to feel the emotion and remember their own stories, or even start a new one.

INTERVIEWER: Why so many substrates to express yourself? As a painter why don’t you just work on canvas.?

Me: I have painted seriously since I was a teenager but in college, I discovered sculpting and my heart skipped a beat. I loved it! In later years when I developed my process for reverse painting on glass, I realized I use all these art mediums as storytelling platforms. I have incorporated them together at times. Mainly using clay on the glass or canvas. I use them for different approaches to particular narratives…but it always comes down to painting. As a painter, I tell my stories.

Born in Portland, Oregon Lynn graduated from Portland State University with a B.S. in Business Administration. From a very early age, she studied drawing and painting and pursued further artistic studies during college. “You can never know enough”, is a personal philosophy and she continues this pursuit of knowledge through her prolific travels and adventures.

She is a founding partner of Tesoro Del Corazon LLC which has been providing art workshops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico annually over the last 10 years.

Building on her international resume Lynn has been additionally teaching in Southern France for many years.

Her work has been regularly exhibited and collected.