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Art has always been a part of my life.  Over five decades, my art work has been selected for numerous art shows and festivals. I have worked in many media including: oil paints and oil bars, watercolor, pencil (watercolor and graphite), printing, pastels (hard and soft), pen and ink. In my art work, I often use a mix of media. 
  
In the past, I made many of the images while sitting on the side of trails waiting for my energetic spouse to return from his hikes. 

Over several years, my chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia flareups has become more frequent and severe. Now, the  fibromyalgia severely restricts my energy and mobility. I stopped using media that would drop onto my face while I recline. 

I spend many hours looking through my windows. From this vantage point, I make black ink drawings on a variety of archival papers. The pen marks make for a variety of simplified, strong, focused stokes. I don't sketch any of my images; they appear as I draw. They are spontaneous and intuitive.

I incorporate my black ink drawings with my poetry. These have been published in literary journals: 
  • Wordgathering, 
  • Cleaning Up Glitter, 
  • Kaleidoscope, 
  • Life Lines Literary Journal
  • Parentheses and
  • Monstering Literary Journal




Art background:

I studied at the: 
University of Utah (watercolor scholarship),
University of Washington (drawing; printing certificate) 
Gage Academy & Pratt Fine Art Center  
(still life drawing, life drawing, pastels and creative printing). 

My art was chosen for these shows: 
  • Mount Baker Neighborhood Art Center's Inaugural Exhibit, Trees in All Their Glory - "Quinault"  (mixed media: oil pastel & hard pastel, pen & ink, markers, watercolor pencil)
  • artEast's Northwest Grand Landscape Exhibit - "Mid-summer Tide"  (soft pastel)
  • artEast's Retail Store Show, Falling - "Fall Leaves" (digital image)
  • Edmonds Art Festival Juried Gallery - "Sunlight" (pen & ink accented with  watercolor pencil)
  • Edmonds Art Festival Juried Gallery - "7pm"  (mono print, 2nd place)
  • Anacortes Juried Show, Art at the Port - "7pm" (mono print)
  • Antioch University, 35th Anniversary HeART Therapy Show - "Inside/Inside Out"  (pen & ink)
  • Gallery by the Bay, Embracing Mother Earth - "Upside/Upside Down" (pen & ink drawing)
  • Gallery by the Bay, Abstracts - "Mazatlan"  (mixed media: oil bar & soft pastel) 
  • Gallery by the Bay, Brushes with Landscapes - "Madrona"  (pen & ink)
  • Harman Eye Clinic  (1 woman show - 8 works) 
  • Herkimer Coffee House  (1 woman show - 8 works)






 


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Lynn A. Guttmann    
http://www.zhibit.org/lag                  
lynn.guttmann@gmail.com



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