Lyn Marie Whiteman – Artist/teacher.

Her work has been a journey of self development and her love of nature and light has been adriving force in her artwork. Lyn completed her Higher National Diploma in Fine Art painting and Drawing in 1988 after attending Amersham and Wycombe College.

In 1979 Lyn met an Art Historian/Tutor, who initially encourage her to paint and gain more understanding through Adult Education Classes. Attending Great Missenden Abbey for a number of years as continuing personal development courses. Also a number of visits to Paris, Albi and Toulouse in France, and Florence, Italy.

Lyn has been teaching since 1989, with 18 students at Adult Education Evening Classes, in Wye Valley School, New Road, Buckinghamshire. Lyn attended this school herself in 1966 – 1972 and stayed to 6th form. After teaching from 1988 - 1989 with the Adult Ed. Centre she decided to teach privately, and has been doing this for over 20 years.

Lyns work started out with a great influence of the Impressionists, Matisse, Delacroix, and her love of Turner, Constable and J.W. McNeil Whistler has continued. She also loved the work of DeStael, and is contually refining her approach to new methods and understandings of contemporary Artists like Nick Andrew, Shirley Trevena and Kurt Jackson.

After living most of her earlier life in Bucks, Lyn moved to West Dorset in 2001, she has developed her painting style with more confidence and is still willing to ‘risk take’ and develop something new and inspiring, most of the comments recently received from the Dorset Artweeks in May and June 2008 were considering the colour Lyn uses and the interesting and varied approach she has to her work, always refreshing and innovative. People are always asking what has been used for a particular effect or rendering, or colour etc., many other artists being inspired also by her work. Lyn loves capturing the moment and using colour in an interesting way.

Lyn now has a large client base, and a continuing student base in West Dorset, and her students also like to explore new ways of working to expand their knowledge and experience.

Lyn has been tutored by the late Geoffrey Vivis R.C.A., Stephen Bevan-Pritchard and Daphne Cousins at Amersham College, also the late John Blockley on one of his courses run at the Mall Galleries London.

After having many travels to New Zealand, Fiji, Sydney, and America, Egypt, Cyprus, Crete, France and Spain to name but a few of the places Lyn has drawn on differing light, different cultures and vistas, and thoroughly enjoys the experience of travelling within different cultures and archeologically historic areas from Ancient History and Archeology.

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 runs weekly teaching sessions and an August Summer School for her students at her home in West Dorset during the year.

Her Self Development workshops are based on each rainbow colour and incorporate the Polarity model of the elements for the five colours – Earth/Water/Fire/Air/Ether - Red/Orange/Yellow/Green/Blue/Indigo, Polarity Therapy ( more information on this can be reached through contacting Lyn. Her course put together by herself to use the techniques she has gathered over her time in Art, i.e. since 1970 to now, and her skills gained from the Life Coaching Academy (Accredited) LCA 2002, now known as www.the-coaching-academy.com which enables her to utilise self development for others. In 2002 Lyn also studied Polarity Therapy and is a Registered Polarity Practitioner. BCMA Registered.

Lyn's artwork 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 focus, along with the family, her love of painting and being creative which is very important to her. She adores getting the art materials out, and just having a field day!

Many of Lyn’s Students, from West Dorset, and Buckinghamshire and the wider counties have commented that each course Lyn has run has been fun and informative, that the students 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 be able to express themselves creatively, and how do we know how important this is in the scheme of things? – Lyn says “well I have seen people flourish in all areas of their lives because their creativity is now being expressed”!

She lives with her husband and their Border Collie Jade, in West Dorset between Bridport and Lyme Regis. She has two children, and is a Grandmother to her three Grandsons.