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 "Let the
beauty of what you love be what you do."-Rumi
"I love beauty. I try to see the magic in everything
and the interconnectedness of life. The process of creating is
a union between body, mind and environment. It is meditation
in action. I want to share that energy with the viewer. I want
to communicate a shared connection. My work is figurative and
abstract moving back and forth and somewhere in between."
Valerie Lynch has been doing art since she was a child. Brought
up by an artist and art director father and a nurturing loving
mother, she has been able to experience the art process throughout
her whole life. Graduating Carnegie-Mellon with a Fine Arts degree
she went straight into advertising at Ogilvy and Mather as an
art director for ten years. Getting her Masters in Art Education
at night, she left advertising and became a high school art teacher
for 13 years. In 2008 she took a leave of absence and has decided
to leave teaching and paint full time.
Valerie paints from life and uses her original photographs.
She works in her studio or en plein air. Valerie works primarily
in watercolor, acrylic, pastel and encaustic. Her monotype work
uses various water based medias and inks. She uses both acrylic
and gelatin plates. Prints are made on a press or by hand.
She lives happily in South Salem with her husband Peter and
step-daughter Jen and their fabulous felines.
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- abstract art
noun
art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable
reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms,
colors, and textures.
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- acrylic
adjective
- of, relating to, or denoting paints based on acrylic resin
as a medium : acrylic colors in an acrylic painting.
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- arcane
adjective
understood by few; mysterious or secret
processes as old and arcane as the language of the law
mysterious, secret; enigmatic, esoteric, cryptic, obscure, abstruse,
recondite, recherché, impenetrable, opaque.
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- beauty
noun ( pl. -ties)
- a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form,
that pleases the aesthetic senses, esp. the sight : I was
struck by her beauty.
- a combination of qualities that pleases the intellect or moral
sense.
- [as adj. ] denoting something intended to make a woman more
attractive : beauty products or beauty treatment.
- a beautiful or pleasing thing or person, in particular
- a beautiful woman.
- an excellent specimen or example of something : the fish
was a beauty, around 14 pounds.
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- encaustic
- an ancient medium that flourished over 200 years
ago in Greco-Roman Egypt in painting and ceramics using pigments
mixed with hot wax
- the art or process of encaustic painting.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek enkaustikos, from
enkaiein 'burn in,' from en- 'in' + kaiein 'to burn.'
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- figurative
adjective
of an artist or work of art representing forms that are recognizably
derived from life.
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- Giclee (zhee-klay)'
- The term "giclee print" connotes an elevation in
printmaking technology. Images are generated from hgh resolution
ditgital scans and printed with achival quality inks onto various
substrates including paper and canvas.
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- landscape
noun
- all the visible features of an area of countryside or land,
often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal : the giant
cacti that dominate this landscape.
- a picture representing an area of countryside : [as adj. ]
a landscape painter.
- the genre of landscape painting.
- figurative the distinctive features of a particular situation
or intellectual activity : the event transformed the political
landscape.
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- meditation
noun
cultivating the presence of God through meditation contemplation,
thought, thinking, musing, pondering, consideration, reflection,
deliberation, rumination, brooding, reverie, concentration; prayer;
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- medium
noun ( pl. -dia or -diums )
- The intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed
to the senses
- the substance in which an organism lives or is cultured : grow
bacteria in a nutrient-rich medium.
- a liquid (e.g., oil or water) with which pigments are mixed
to make paint.
- the material or form used by an artist, composer, or writer
: oil paint is the most popular medium for glazing.
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- monotype
noun
- a single print taken from a design created in paint or printing
ink on glass, metal or another appropriate surface.
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- plein-air
adjective
denoting or in the manner of a 19th-century style of painting
outdoors, or with a strong sense of the open air, that became
a central feature of French Impressionism.
ORIGIN from French en plein air 'in the open air.'
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- renewable
adjective
- (of energy or its source) not permanently depleted when used
: a shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
noun (usu. renewables)
- a source of energy that is not depleted by use, such as water,
wind, or solar power.
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- representational
adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by representation : representational
democracy.
- relating to or denoting art that aims to depict the physical
appearance of things. Contrasted with abstract
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- solar
adjective
of, relating to, or determined by the sun : solar radiation.
- relating to or denoting energy derived from the sun's rays:
solar heating.
ORIGIN late Middle English : from Latin solaris, from sol 'sun.'
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- still life
noun ( pl. still lifes)
a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically
including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these
in texture, such as bowls and glassware.
- this type or genre of painting or drawing.
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- (Definitions are from the Oxford American Dictionary.)
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- © 2008 Valerie Lynch.
- All photographs and text are the
property of Valerie Lynch
- and may not be duplicated without
permission.
- All Rights Reserved
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