Member Profile -- Lynn LeTourneau, Painter, Sculptor
Lynn LeTourneau, a multi-talented sculptor, printmaker, and painter, joined the Artists Union in 2006. She has already become an enthusiastic volunteer and currently holds the prized position of coordinating AU Gallery Sitters.
“I am privileged that I can live this life” states Lynn.
Lynn spent her youth in the museums of New York City and learned to draw the human figure at the famed Art Students League. She studied Jung and abstract expressionism, attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, taught art classes, and received a degree in transpersonal psychology from Antioch University in San Francisco.
After graduation, Lynn attended classes at the Fort Mason Center exploring figurative clay sculpture finding inspiration in the figurative expressions of Redon, Goodacre, and other masters. This experience was vital according to Lynn. “I learned how to see accurately and carve interpretively.” For the next twelve years, Lynn primarily worked in clay sculpting the human form. She is a member of the San Francisco Sculptor’s Co-op and the San Francisco Women’s Art Gallery. In 2001, Lynn relocated to Santa Barbara and became active in the Santa Barbara Sculptors Guild. After a move to Carpinteria in 2006, Lynn joined the Artists Union.
Lynn’s newest works are mixed media paintings that are “kinesthetic in nature.” She begins by meditating upon a theme allowing feelings and thoughts to gestate until forms and colors arise. Sculptural elements and mixed media combine to give texture and depth to the canvases. Lynn says “For me, each canvas is a window to connect with visual archetypal patterns and materialize forms.”
“I observe the process and think about what is occurring within the activity and play with the elements of the picture. The paintings have a life of their own and form a collective visual story. The titles present themselves afterwards,” says Lynn.
Lynn became a member of the Artists Union because she enjoys the collaborative process that comes about when artists gather together. She also enjoys taking classes in Santa Barbara with Jill Sattler and others. Lynn has a studio at SeaBreeze Gallery and Studios which hosted her one woman show in April 2005. Her work has appeared in local shows and galleries including the Artists Union Salon 2006, the Juried Competition at the County Government Center, and Palm Loft in Carpinteria. Lynn’s figurative sculpture will be available at Allegory Fine Arts Gallery on Front Street in Ventura.
For more information feel free to contact Lynn for a visit her studio or online at essenceartworks@yahoo.com.
“I am privileged that I can live this life” states Lynn.
Lynn spent her youth in the museums of New York City and learned to draw the human figure at the famed Art Students League. She studied Jung and abstract expressionism, attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, taught art classes, and received a degree in transpersonal psychology from Antioch University in San Francisco.
After graduation, Lynn attended classes at the Fort Mason Center exploring figurative clay sculpture finding inspiration in the figurative expressions of Redon, Goodacre, and other masters. This experience was vital according to Lynn. “I learned how to see accurately and carve interpretively.” For the next twelve years, Lynn primarily worked in clay sculpting the human form. She is a member of the San Francisco Sculptor’s Co-op and the San Francisco Women’s Art Gallery. In 2001, Lynn relocated to Santa Barbara and became active in the Santa Barbara Sculptors Guild. After a move to Carpinteria in 2006, Lynn joined the Artists Union.
Lynn’s newest works are mixed media paintings that are “kinesthetic in nature.” She begins by meditating upon a theme allowing feelings and thoughts to gestate until forms and colors arise. Sculptural elements and mixed media combine to give texture and depth to the canvases. Lynn says “For me, each canvas is a window to connect with visual archetypal patterns and materialize forms.”
“I observe the process and think about what is occurring within the activity and play with the elements of the picture. The paintings have a life of their own and form a collective visual story. The titles present themselves afterwards,” says Lynn.
Lynn became a member of the Artists Union because she enjoys the collaborative process that comes about when artists gather together. She also enjoys taking classes in Santa Barbara with Jill Sattler and others. Lynn has a studio at SeaBreeze Gallery and Studios which hosted her one woman show in April 2005. Her work has appeared in local shows and galleries including the Artists Union Salon 2006, the Juried Competition at the County Government Center, and Palm Loft in Carpinteria. Lynn’s figurative sculpture will be available at Allegory Fine Arts Gallery on Front Street in Ventura.
For more information feel free to contact Lynn for a visit her studio or online at essenceartworks@yahoo.com.
Written by Jeanne LaRocco
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