ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynn Stenzel
"Growing up on the plains there was an empty, unrestricted vision of the horizon where the earth met the sky. One could not escape a sense of AWE of living on the land surrounded by vast space dominated by an immense ever-changing sky. My respect for nature increased when storms rolled in, creating thunderous responses to crackling lightning, which was thrilling and frightening." -Lynn Stenzel
Painter Lynn Stenzel, a former Serigraphy Printmaker, now works in two mediums: acrylic on canvas and pastel on paper. Her large landscape and sky-scape paintings capture the vast expanse of the open plains, which are heightened by the drama of an intense stormy sky.
Stenzel received M.A. and B.A. degrees from Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado, and her work is represented in many private and corporate collections throughout the United States and internationally. Her work has been described as:
"Dramatic, intense and yet serene"
"Calm, centered works"
"Striking and more so in simplicity
ROY SONNEMA PH.D.
"Just east of the Front Range, where the western mountains begin,
are the extensive ranch lands, open country and vast sky of the high plains. The open,
boundless space and the emotional effect it has are difficult to successfully capture on the
surface of a painting, but Lynn Stenzel is an artist who knows how to do such images.
She grew up on the high plains, and the emotional content of her imagery comes from deep personal experience. In Stenzel's paintings, human presence is suggested, not by
figures in the landscapes, but by a tiny ranch house under a huge sky or by a lonely
road disappearing toward the horizon, or an abandoned barn. Anyone who
has experienced the vast space, the bare confrontation of land and sky, the minimal landscape,
the endless rivers of wind and the exquisite loneliness of the high plains, will respond to
Stenzel's paintings."
CONTACT
Please call to make an appointment
Studio Location:
Historic Federal Building
421 North Main St.
Suite 212
Pueblo, CO 81103
Home: 719-542-3917
Work: 719-252-9559
Firedworks Gallery:
608 Main Street
Alamosa, Colorado 81101
719-589-6064
Toll-free: 800-241-3245
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"
Edgar Degas
