Lynn Trone
Artist Biography
Lynn Trone is a native of Schuyler County Illinois and a long time art specialist in several mediums. Pencil is a favorite while painting has been of interest lately. Lynn’s art pieces that have been donated and sold are hanging across the country. Attending Rushville High School and honing her skill in pencil shading, water colors and acrylics with Art Instructor Mel Casper was a positive influence. Lynn gives much credit to her early involvement with art in public school.
She is a farmer by trade and enjoys time at her farm where her steads are mostly used for therapeutic riding. She is married with two grown children Ryan and Glenna. When she is not drawing, sketching or painting you can find Lynn caring for horses, poultry, dogs and cats on her hobby farm. She also is known to mow a few acres of grass in summer time and generally meandering around.
Artist Statement
I have been drawing as long as I can remember. Growing up on the farm made it easy to be drawn to livestock and farm settings to become art in the most simple ways in the eyes of a young person.
As I matured so too did my skill level. I can clearly credit my education and especially the years in art class with Mel Casper as the true catalyst that brought my art to a level that even I can admit did not know was attainable.
My lifelong interest and love of horses and the hours spent on and around them has translated into a keen understanding of the form and shape of these majestic animals. Art class trained us in so many ways to bring art alive thru pencil, watercolors, and oils.
What elevated my art after school was the marriage of all disciplines. Although I have done many inanimate subjects going back to my love of the horse was the single best form that I understood.
I found the the horse the best subject to show the power of shading and the precision of the stroke of a simple pencil to bring life to a sheet of art paper. My first four subjects that went to print were horses, the first was Jedask the Sire for the Arabian Foals we raised for a time.
This piece was a quantum change in my previous work as I applied an intensity to this work that would be applied to other subsequent work displayed here.
My journey as an artist continues by volunteering as a set artist for the performing arts, primarily for two plays each year at SID5. My personal work will continue when I am motivated to print-worthy subjects but at this time the work with the school is very important to me and it is my hope to support and inspire in any way possible the performing arts and those young artists just waiting to breakout in their own way. Art has been very challenging and rewarding in my life and I give a lot of credit to any success I have had to our tradition of excellence in the arts and it is my hope that it continues.
Show runs from March 1 – April 25, 2019.