Artist Lynda Kodwyck

Lynda is a full time, fine arts artist specializing in seascapes and portraits. She is classically trained and thinks of herself as an interpretive artist. The importance of working from life is integral to her work. Life studies’ practice informs her work when it is necessary to work from photographs.

Her portraits are set apart from others because she heightens their life-like appeal by interpreting the personality and expression of each subject. Her ultimate goal is to always create portraits that have far greater impact on viewers than the photographs she often has to work from.

She also paints “portraits” of the ocean on location (en plein air) and uses her photographs for referencing shapes. Having lived near or by the ocean her entire life, first in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and now here in Florida, she studies, interprets, and paints the ocean with as much passion as she paints her portraits.

Lynda studied Fine Art at UNH. As a child she studied with Newburyport/Rockport Massachusetts’ master artist – Richard Gibney (a WWII combat artist, portrait artist, and muralist). More recently she has studied with the renowned French muralist – Pascal Amblard (at The Finishing School on Long Island), Stephen Perkins (nationally renowned sculptor), and John Houghton, (Master Portrait Artist). She also studied with New England Master Artists – Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo and Karen Blackwood. She seeks out and studies with other artists, who have “something” she sees in their art that she feels will add to her art – a critically important part of the artistic process.

Lynda is a member of The Art Students’ Guild of Brevard, The Vero Beach Art Club, the American Society of Marine Artists, and the Portrait Society of America. She exhibits her work at several juried art festivals in Florida, teaches fine art classes, and her work graces homes and institutions throughout the eastern United States, Canada, and Great Britain.