Lynn Macdonald

I grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. My journey into art was a slow and unexpected one. Although my mother was a writer and artist, I was more into academics and sports.

I went to college at The Johns Hopkins University and the sum total of my art was doodling in the margins of my notebooks. This doodling continued after graduation when I worked for International Paper Company.

One day, while doodling in a staff meeting, someone suggested that perhaps I should be taking some art classes since I lived in New York City.

Deciding that this was a grand idea, I began taking drawing and watercolors. I then took 3 Dimensional Design and then sculpture. With sculpture I thought I had found my calling.

When we moved back to North Carolina in 1989 I had the first of my three children. Realizing that sculpture (in marble that is) was incredibly cumbersome and time consuming with young kids, I turned to painting.

I taught myself how to paint using acrylics by attempting to copy the great painters of the Abstract Expressionism Period. Eventually I developed my own style.

Although I have been painting for 20 years, other than displaying my work in my house I have never shown it until this past July.

I switched to oil...

I graduated with a Math Degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1981

I took classes at Parsons School of Design and The New School from 1984-1988

Continuing education in sculpture in California and North Carolina.

July 2015 -- art show at The Tyler-White-O'Brien Gallery in Greensboro, NC

Art sold in German, Finland, France, Panama, Costa Rica, England, Italy and all over America.