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Lynn LeTourneau Artist Statement For me each canvas is a window of expression and my joy is to share this with others. I rely on my intuition to guide me and working abstractly allows the power of the unconscious to emerge.  Abstract work is a process of many choices, both internal and external. Utilizing its’ own unique visual language, different parts of the painting eventually integrate into a whole that makes sense and becomes meaningful to the viewer.  I experience myself as if I was on an archeological dig where archetypal symbols can flow and re-create the myths we live by. The title of my new collection is “Regeneration”, which in Latin means (re) again and  (generae) create. Concerned with environmental issues I have been keenly aware of the magnificent, generative force of nature. I also realized the compassionate force behind this creativity in a profound way. Focusing on my work I found a beautiful atlas that inspired several paintings for this collection. For example, the painting ”Regeneration” began as a reference to a map. It transformed into a red sea of primal possibilities regenerating life in spite of a sky representing the shadow of pollution. I worked on several paintings at once experimenting with media. I often painted with acrylic as a first layer to achieve interesting surface and texture.  I then used oil paint to bring out each color with a rich luster.  I find the use of color quite fascinating for each color expresses a feeling tone.  I also enjoy the process of printing monotypes and collographs. For me, printmaking is often spontaneous, experimental and playful. This collection of paintings and prints connected me to a source of renewal and hope for the possibility of healing our Earth. Biography Growing up near New York City gave Lynn Le Tourneau the opportunity to absorb great art. She graduated high schooli during the soul searching time of the sixties. She studied at the Boston Museum School and soon after delved into an in-depth search of truth. This search led Lynn to an ashram, The Holy Shankaracharya Order (in the Pocono Mountains), where she lived  as a sanyasin . Her many responsibilities included being a meditation and yoga teacher. It was a decade of self- discovery and soul development. Realizing it was time to return to the secular world, Lynn attended college at Antioch University in San Francisco to study Transpersonal Psychology so she could further understand the nature of the psyche.  Lynn was a massage therapist for ten years. Lynn Le Tourneau also returned to her love of art and with great gusto began to sculpt the human form in clay at Fort Mason, the Sculptor’s Co-op and the Clay Studio in San Francisco. She has also studied with Bela Basci, an internationally known sculptor in Santa Barbara. Lynn was chosen to have many of her sculptures to be in an award winning independent film, “In the Wake”, written and directed by Erica Jordan.  In the past year, Lynn Le Tourneau presented sculpture with Lynn Creighton in a show called, “Essence of Woman” at the gallery Allegory in Ventura. Her work is enjoyed in many collections in the USA. Lynn Le Tourneau has chosen to expand her medium to include contemporary painting and monotype printmaking. She is studying mixed media painting with Jill Sattler in Santa Barbara. Lynn is a member of the Ventura County Potters Guild, Ojai Center for the Arts, the Buenaventura Artist Union Gallery of Ventura, and the juried Santa Barbara Art Association & Gallery 113.   You can contact Lynn Le Tourneau at: essenceartworks@gmail.com Her website is lynnletourneau.com. History| Resident Artists    Contact Sea Breeze Art Gallery for more information.