Lynn Mayes received her BFA at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has studied with Phillip Lawrence Sherrod at the Art Students League in New York; and with several studio artists at the Arrowmont School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She spend two summers on the island of Samos, Greece studying with Yannis Ziogas at the Art School of the Aegean. Since 1994, Lynn Mayes has devoted her professional life to painting with oils and mixed media. Her subject matter ranges from figures to the landscape; sometimes the two are combined. Most of the images are living in her imagination, although some are taken directly from life. She has participated in a number of group shows in Nashville, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Public Broadcasting featured Lynn Mayes on “State of the Arts” - the October 2006 edition. Her work has been reviewed in the Nashville Tennessean (1997), the Dekalb News Extra (1998), The Dunwoody Crier (1999), the Vanderbilt University Alumni magazine (2000), the Atlanta Journal Constitution (photo 2000), the Atlanta Jewish Times (2001), the Best of the Fest Magazine, State College, Pennsylvania (2003), Cottonwood Art Festival Magazine, Dallas, Texas (2004), Savannah Morning News (2006). “I use grisaille technique with layers of oil glazes on a support textured with my handprints. The work is finished with ink, oil pastel, foil, wax, metallic acrylic and leaf. Some pieces are finished with epoxy resin. The images are generated in my imagination, and as the work progresses I become the vessel through which the painting takes on its own life.” Lynn Mayes
The Art Students League - New York City With Philip Lawrence Sherrod - Fred Mitchell - Costa Vavagiakis Art School of the Aegean - Samos, Greece With Yannis Ziogas Studied Privately with: Teaching Positions Nancy Bauer Dillon Jerry Cutler Pinckneyville Arts Center Assoc Prof Art Assoc Prof Art Gwinnett County, GA Brevard Community College University of Florida Melbourne, FL Gainesville, FL Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN Virginia Derryberry Susan Moffett Cerulean Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Professor of Art Associate Prof Art Berry College Central Indiana University Rome, GA Sellersburg, IN Libby Johnson Henry Leo Schoebel Studio Artist Assistant Prof Art Baton Rouge, LA Arizona State University,Tempe, AZ Recipient of Margaret Marshall Wood Scholarship 1995 - Arrowmont School of Arts First Prize - Pi Beta Phi Foundation Competition 1998 Juried member, Atlanta Artists Club, Dunwoody Fine Art Association (President 1997-99) One Person Shows: The Atlanta Public Library - 1994 Barnes & Noble Bookstore - 1995 Tennessee Art League - 1997 Vanderbilt University - 1999 Cerulean Fine Art - 2000 Selected List of Juried Group Shows: Spring show Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN; “Bags and Baggage” 1996 Pleasure Island Art Association Juried Fine Arts Exhibit, Honorable Mention 1997 The Artists Group Show - Atlanta, GA 1998 Southern Artists Invitational - Anne Irwin Fine Art - Atlanta, GA 1998 Annual Invitational Fine Arts Festival - Jackson, GA Merit Award 1998 Gwinnett Council for the Arts - Duluth, GA - 2000 Southeastern Invitational Exhibition - Duluth, GA 2000 Fulton Atlanta North Juried Exhibition - Allen Ashton Gallery - Roswell, GA 2001 Chaos and the Future - 3rd Contemporary Art Exhibit; the Naval Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 2000 Bruce Museum Outdoor Fine Arts Festival- Greenwich, CT October 2003 Decatur Arts Festival - Decatur, GA 2004 Second Place Galleries - FL; Taylor Kinzel Gallery, Roswell, GA; Be Original Art, Atlanta, GA; Gallery del Corazon, Benton Harbor, MI Corporate Collections - Amway Corp, Tokyo, Japan; City Hall, Agios Constantinos, Samos, Greece;- First Union Bank, St. Augustine, FL Reviews - The Nashville Tennessean, 1997; The DeKalb News Extra, 1998; The Dunwoody Crier, 1999; The Vanderbilt Alumni Magazine, 2000; The Atlanta Journal Constitution photo, 2000; Atlanta Jewish Times 2001; The Best of the Fest cover photograph 2003, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts  |
