Lynn is from the Cache Valley Utah area where his parents lived in the small town of Lewiston along the Utah, Idaho border. From there, his father, a school teacher, relocated to Preston Idaho, then to Ogden Utah, then on to a small town in southern Utah called Enterprise where Lynn graduated from high school. He then went to Dixie college and from there onto the U of U at Salt Lake City Utah, where he resides today.
"I never became interested in art -- it came naturally to me without thinking about it. I just evolved from the crayon stage as a child. I suspect that I was encouraged as a child just to keep me occupied and then from there it became my passion."
With a BFA from the U of U -- Lynn couldn't wait to get out of school. "The greatest teacher, was and still is, the canvas itself, however, there were a few teachers that inspired me with the art for arts sake philosophy."
"Art for arts sake has not been a career. The pursuit of money destroys the art spirit. Money becomes the pursuit rather than the painting. I am pursuing painting not capitalism.
The landscape together with the innerscape. The connection from inner to outer -- from the inner self to the outer experience -- combines to become a unique vision to the world.
I am a painter. So its all about the paint. The painter creates washes, glazes, impasto and even draws with the brush. The viscosity of the paint is important -- the feel of the paint as it glides over the surface. From this, It’s the textural qualities that make the difference in a painting. This is not by style but by joyfully experiencing the paint.
My style, then, emerges as the painterly approach -- real painterly like frosting.
An elegant brushwork -- graceful, rich and beautifully tasteful -- with precise gesture -- while remaining loose and free is the goal".
Lynn's gestural style is unique embodying a variety of biomorphic stroke shapes and sizes. This is achieved by various sensitive brush pressures to create a dance like movement on canvas -- much like sumi brushwork -- but with thick impasto -- a graceful rhythmic painting is my goal.
Lynn Bright has been involved with the Intermountain society of artists, the Utah watercolor society, No more Homeless Pets, Utah heart foundation.
He has won many awards including best of show at the National Arts Program.
"My goal is to raise vibrational frequency -- moving the viewer emotionally". "Pastoral feeling with hedgerows and meandering streams." George Dibble, art critic for the Salt Lake Tribune, reviewing Lynn's one person show at Sylvester's Art Gallery.
Senator Francis Farley " A pure and sincere expression". Dr. Dale Westwood, "Sensitive and expressive".
Why aren’t you famous yet? Lynn's collectors are asking him. "I thought my work would promote itself." he tells them.

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