Art that creatively meets the needs of specific architectural environments defines LYNNEL Art To Forms objectives.  In meeting those creative ambitions, my process is often transformed by the collaborative input including the Lynnel team, architects, designers and clients across the country.  The portfolio of my original artwork is intentionally varied in size, shape and color to provide numerous options.  A major objective of mine is to consider how each artwork integrates throughout a building and how these images will impact a variety of viewers. 

Even as I continue to create oil paintings shown in galleries, I wear a different hat to produce large-scale digital art.  By layering my photos of nature, handwork, and often abstract photographic images I am able to, with the help of a photoshop expert, to create new and high resolution original art.  My experience as a painter and printer of monotypes has informed my evolution into digitally produced art.  This has felt like a logical addition to my creative repertoire, one I had spent years preparing for without even knowing it.

To my delight, the digital approach allows me to correct color and compositional errors in seconds.  Similarly, the capacity to crop and use individual portions of a two dimensional artwork has allowed me to utilize portions of a composition completely on their own.  I have often been told that these parts are as striking individually as the original piece.  It helps that this type of flexibility makes it easier to place art in very specific architectural spaces.  Nothing like this is possible with oil paints and a brush.  The main difference is NOT the focused attention held in the process, that is the same no matter which creative approach I am engaged with.

  The expansion of using digital tools has been incredibly rewarding.  Similarly discovering other artistic approaches has lead me to the development of three-dimensional suspended art sculptures.  The discovery of a variety of translucent substrates has inspired me to envision a multitude of ways to create large scale suspended sculptures.  Light, both transmitted and reflected, on glass and acrylic, adds a magical new finish to suspended art sculpture.  Creating and combining a variety of shapes, which have my artwork applied to them, has expanded my capacity as an artist.  Suspended artwork continues to amaze me and I hope others.  No two sculptures are ever the same.

Working together with the Lynnel Team, architects and designers to meet the needs and desires of clients who want to artistically enhance spaces in their hospitals, as well as in other architectural setting, has been a fulfilling addition to my artistic practice.  My hope is that these ventures bring a surprising and unexpected joy to viewers in these surroundings.  My personal goal is to never compromise my creativity but still be open and welcoming to the process of finding solutions collaboratively.