Lynne Cunningham, Artist

Bio

Biography . . .
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Lynne Cunningham is a native of California and grew up in Palm Springs (Southern California) in the 1960’s, the youngest daughter in an artistic family. These early creative influences inspired Lynne throughout her life; she followed her father's footsteps, was educated as a landscape architect and worked for the State of California for 15 years. Ultimately the artist took up painting in response to a strong personal desire for expressive creativity.

Her artistic style is best described as a contemporary impressionism. Lynne derives her greatest gratification in conceptualizing a mood inherent in a scene or landscape, and communicating expression, emotion or atmosphere in the finished painting.

The artist is a lifelong outdoor enthusiast and shares hiking, mountain biking and snorkelling as favorite sports with her husband James R. Cunningham.

She paints plein air frequently to infuse her work with real-life experience and freshness.

Lynne Cunningham studied in studio art classes at College of the Desert (Palm Desert) and obtained a BSLA degree from Calif. Poly State University (SLO) from the College of Architecture/Environmental Design. She has attended painting and art classes through workshops at Univ. So. Calif. and UC Santa Cruz Extension courses, Davis Art Center, Scottsdale (AZ) Artists School and Mendocino Art Center. She has studied with the following artists in workshops: Sylvia Miller, Eric Weigardt, Armand Cabrera, Robert Burridge, Nikki Bash-Davis and Jerrold Turner.

When not painting plein air, Lynne paints in her studio which is located in a small agricultural town near Davis, California.


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