Lyn Marie Whiteman – Artist/teacher.
Her work is a constant a journey of self-development and her love of nature and light has been a driving force in her artwork. Lyn completed her Higher National Diploma in Fine Art painting and Drawing in 1988 after attending Amersham and Wycombe College now known as the Bucks New University.
Lyn has had her work exhibited in the Paris Salon, at the Grand Palais, on two separate occasions and also had exhibitions at Bucks County Museum, Westminster Gallery, Mall Galleries, Red Gallery Marlow, Luxters Fine Art Henley, A & P show Auckland, New Zealand, and the Foundling Museum Café, London.
Lyn has been teaching adults since 1989, eighteen students attended her first year at her Adult Education Evening Classes, in Buckinghamshire. Lyn attended this school herself in 1966 – 1972 and stayed to 6th form. After 1989 Lyn decided to teach privately. Lyn has been a ‘long term’ member of the SAA - the society for all artists www.saa.co.uk/art/lynda, and won the prize for ‘The Professional Associate Major Award’ in 1997.
Lyn’s work started out with a great influence of the French Impressionists, Matisse, Delacroix, and her love of Turner, Picasso, Constable and J.W. McNeil Whistler has continued. She also admired the work of DeStael, and some of the American Impressionists such as Frieske, and is continually refining her approach to new methods and understandings of contemporary Artists, being inspired by Nick Andrews, Shirley Trevena and Kurt Jackson.
Growing up around the Chiltern Hills area in Buckinghamshire, Lyn moved to West Dorset in 2001, and East Devon in 2009, and she has developed her work and is still willing to ‘risk take’ and develop something new and inspiring. Clients and students alike are always interested in what Lyn has used for a particular effect or rendering, or colour. Lyn loves capturing the moment and especially using colour in an interesting and unusual way.
Lyn was tutored by both the late Geoffrey Vivis R.C.A. at Amersham College, and the John Blockley at the Mall Galleries, London.
Lyn loves working in Mixed Media, Watercolours, Oils, Pastels, and watercolour and pastels mixed, Acrylics, Acrylic Inks. Exploring different ways of working with different techniques.
Lyn also works on silk and creates paintings and individually designed scarves please see www.signaturesilks.co.uk some of these designs as paintings are available as Limited Edition prints.
Her Self Development workshops are based on each rainbow colours Red/Orange/Yellow/ Green/Blue/Indigo/Purple, see www.artofexpansion.co.uk and incorporates the elements within ‘Polarity Therapy’ Earth/Water/Fire/Air/Ether, more information on the therapy work can be found on www.polarity.tk
Lyn designed her own self-development workshops to use the broad base of skills and techniques she has gathered through her own personal experience and over time in Art and Life Coaching, www.the-coaching-academy.com which enables her to utilise self development for others. Additionally, in 2002 Lyn studied Polarity Therapy and is a Registered Polarity Practitioner, (RPP) with the UK Polarity Association UKPTA www.polarity.tk , and is BCMA and BCTC Registered, that is a broad based ‘health enhancing therapy’, which has been responsible for helping Lyn to gain greater understanding of self, and life in general.
Lyn's artwork with self development involves many different areas of expertise and most of the work she does on a 1:1 basis is customer tailored to the client with whom she is working.
Lyn’s art remains her passion and focus, along with the family, her love of painting and being creative. She adores painting in any media, and just having a field day!
Many of Lyn’s Students, from West Dorset/East Devon, and Buckinghamshire and the wider counties, have commented that each course Lyn has run ‘has been fun and informative’, that they have learned so much, and that Lyn has a special quality that is ‘unique’ and rarely found in other places. Lyn brings more to the teaching than just ‘art’.
Many people have come to her workshops because they feel they have a ‘creative block’ and this needs to be assisted before they can really express themselves. Lyn says ‘I really enjoy my work and feel that I can make a real difference in the world with creative processes’. It is so rewarding to see someone being able to express themselves creatively, and do we know how important this is in the bigger picture? – Lyn says, “ I have seen people flourish in all areas of their lives because their creativity is now being happily expressed”!
Lyn is married and lives with her husband Graham and their Border Collie Jade, in East Devon/West Dorset borders near Lyme Regis. She has two children now in their 30’s, and is a Grandmother to three Grandsons, and a Grandaughter.