October Artist Spotlight
Meet Lynn Dennis
Lynn Dennis is a native Chicagoan, but she lived in Los Angeles and St. Louis before arriving in the Boston area twenty – four years ago. She has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and graduate degrees in Social Work and in Jewish Studies. Currently, Lynn resides in Wellesley.
Lynn began investing time in art shortly before her retirement seven years ago. Prior to that, she had approached her careers as a psychotherapist, teacher and administrator with creative intention, developing a reputation for “thinking outside of the box.” However, she had been well aware of a longing to immerse herself in color and pattern, a desire that remained on her bucket list far too long.
Lynn tried a variety of local art classes in an effort to find the medium that was most gratifying to her. And she took several art history classes to not only better understand evolutionary art trends, but to also better appreciate the possibilities that art affords. Currently, she finds acrylic painting on fairly large canvases most fulfilling. Ironically, despite her love of large swaths of color, Lynn burns through a lot of small brushes as patterns emerge in her paintings. She is the sort of artist who sees the trees before the forest.
Lynn’s artistic theme is “Life in Color.” Most of her paintings are loose interpretations of her observations of our local area and of her visits elsewhere, particularly to Santa Cruz, CA. Lynn is drawn to the stories our surroundings tell and she tries to capture these stories on canvas.