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     Somewhere along the way I absorbed the idea that composition is the one thing an artist can call his or her own—that the way we put images and objects together is more likely to bear the imprint of our originality than the way we render or portray the individual things themselves.

     True or not, this idea has remained in my life with the persistence of truth.





  
  

 
 

   



     I tend to treat the landscape forms much as one might treat still-life objects in a studio, moving them around and relating them to each other in terms of a guiding idea rather than a customary view or vista.  I work to maintain the awareness of the connection between the observation and the thought it provokes.  Seeing leads to thinking and feeling—and these lead to the formal inventions which try to put it all in one packed Package.




 



 
 

Lynn Thorpe grew up in a small Wyoming town at the edge of the Black Hills. She studied French and English at the University of Washington ( BA 1968); art at the Canberra School of Art , Canberra, A.C.T Australia (1975-77); the University of Wyoming (2nd BA and MFA 1983); and printmaking at the Canadian Institute of Non-Toxic Printmaking, Peace River, and Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, ( 1994 and 1997).
 
She has worked in a variety of positions, both academic and non-academic, in Canada, Australia, Japan, and the US.  She became a member of the art faculty of Northwest College in Powell, in 1984, where she taught 2D design, design: color, painting and printmaking. Among other citations for excellence in teaching, she is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2004 and 2005; and received a NISOD nomination for outstanding teaching in 2004.
 
Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally and has won purchase awards from several regional competitions, including the (Wyoming) Governor's Inaugural Art Exhibition, 2001. Her work is held in the collections of the Wyoming State Museum, the University of Wyoming Art Museum, and private collections throughout the US and Canada.
Thorpe retired from teaching in 2005 to concentrate full time on painting.

Lynn Thorpe is represented in the Black Hills by
Warriors Work / Ben West Gallery,  Hill City, South Dakota.

Visit Lynn's website at www.lynnthorpe.com

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