Sitting Pose Canvas Print

I am in love with color, movement, and energy. I paint with passion, standing up at an easel, listening to loud music. I work spontaneously to generate excitement and action. Then I stop and stare at the canvas until it tells me to begin again. After many days and layers of paint, the discovery is complete.

Lynne Taetzsch was born in East Orange, New Jersey and grew up in Irvington and Newark, New Jersey. She was interested in art from the time she was a child, spending her allowance on arts and crafts supplies, painting the school windows for the holidays, and winning a class drawing contest in eighth grade. As a young teenager she took oil-painting lessons from a local artist and later she was president of her high-school art club. At Rutgers University, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, Lynne took art classes in painting, print-making, drawing and pottery. But the biggest influence on her art was the two years she spent at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City,...