Lynn Attig • California • waow
| Country Life | Landscape | Horses | Nature | Trees | Sheep | Dogs | Cows | Family |
"Painting the Still Wild West”
Women Artists of the West, Associate
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Lynn Attig
Lynn is an award-winning Western artist who enjoys capturing the beauty and traditions of California ranch life. She is co-founder, president emerita, and director of communications for the Pastel Society of Southern California; vice-president, exhibition chair and Signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast; juried member of the Pastel Society of America; and a member of the California Art Club and Pacific Arts Group. Lynn is also the founder and past director of the Rejoice in Art! Fine Art Fair & Exhibition (2015-2019) held in Redondo Beach, California. As a four-year invited artist to the Tehachapi Arts Exhibition and Sale (2022-2025), Lynn's work has been featured in Western Art Collector and American Art Collector magazines. Her paintings have been acquired by many collectors over the past two decades.
Lynn primarily paints with pastels, luscious sticks of pure pigment, which she says are magical, colorful, light-refractive and archival. As a child in rural Washington state, she often sat in the tall grass, sketchpad and pencil in hand, while her horses grazed beside her. At age 11, she won a newspaper art contest with her drawing of a horse running along a fence, entitled, “The Grass is Always Greener.” She was inspired by her parents, who immersed the family in fine arts, from music and dance to writing and painting. So, it was natural that art would pop up throughout her life in different ways.
In fact, Lynn is sure she has always been an artist, even though her eventual career led her into writing and communications at Edelman PR Worldwide, where she served as vice president (aka, press agent for Morris the 9-Lives Cat), and later as corporate communications manager for Nissan North America, Inc. A few years later, horses would re-enter her life when her family acquired a ranch on the California Central Coast. It was a chance for her to return regularly to the country and paint horses, cows and the Western landscape, both plein air and in studio. Her first solo show, “The Still Wild West,” held in 2014 at 608 North Art Gallery, Redondo Beach, featured 45 original pastel paintings, many of which sold on opening night.
Lynn loves sharing her art with others and is gratified to be an active member of the art community, where she has taught classes and inspired many people in the art of pastel.
Women Artists of the West
Pastel Society of America, Juried Member
Pastel Society of the West Coast, Board Member and Signature Member
Pastel Society of Southern California, Co-founder, President Emerita and Board Member
California Art Club, Associate Artist Member
American Impressionist Society, Associate Member
Pacific Arts Group, Palos Verdes Art Center, Member
