A native of Anderson, Indiana, Lynda Pauley; formerly Lynda Collins; Lynda Sutton-maiden name; has pursued her love of art from a very early age. She completed her formal art studies at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. There, she included arts administration, marketing, and painting in her course work, and after graduating she served as the Gallery Director at Indiana University - Kokomo, Indiana campus. Later, Lynda became the Museum Educator and Art School Director at the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio. In both positions, she taught painting while continuing to pursue her own artistic expression. With multiple art projects always on going, she continues to teach oil and pastel in her own Prairie’s Edge studio facilities on a 150-acre tall grass prairie with woods and wetlands in South Vienna, Ohio.
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An accomplished equestrian getting her first horse, an American Saddlebred, at age 10, and an American Saddlebred show mare for equitation at age 14, she showed throughout Indiana in equitation winning a Saddle seat Medal class. A professional equine artist since 1970, Lynda has exhibited her art at the most prestigious horse shows in the country and completed numerous private commission portraits of the outstanding regional and national champion Arabians and American Saddlebred horses. In addition to state and national events for Saddlebreds and Arabians in the United States, Lynda’s work has been shown internationally at the Salon du Cheval et du Poney, Paris, France, and the Royal Red Canadian National Arabian Show, Toronto, Canada. Her paintings and limited-edition prints have sold worldwide.
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Along with her horse portraiture, Lynda has focused her talents on the historic and current life of the American West. This body of work was influenced by the history of Ohio, pioneers going west, and her living on a tall grass prairie. To view her work is to immediately appreciate her artistic ability to make static images seem to be in motion. Her goal is to draw you into the living scene making you temporarily feel as though are a part of it, not just a viewer.
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Now retired, she plans to rekindle her link to painting the Saddlebred and continue to teach painting.
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Opens November 28th