Lynda Best: Water Spirits

May 5-26, 2023
Lynda Best: Water Spirits
Opening reception: Friday, May 5, 5:00-9:00 PM
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Friday, May 12, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM, and Saturdays (May 6 & 13 only) 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.

Lynda Best is an original impressionistic, contemporary artist of nature spirits. She was born in Wichita, Kansas and has lived all over the southern U.S. When she discovered the clear, clean waters of Tennessee, she knew she had to make it her home. She earned a degree in Arts Education from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and later received an Ed.S. in Leadership while working in the public schools. During that time, she also taught art classes for the Tennessee Arts Commission. Throughout her career as an educator, she always used art to reach children. After teaching 36 years, she retired in May 2014, and has used her time to focus on nature, family, gardening, and her art. Her paintings are a form of meditation as she creates calming images. She also sculpts in stone when inspiration calls to her.

She developed her own style for showing the “frozen moment”: when time stops, we’re a witness to nature, and it fills us with a sense of wonder and awe. Our spirit is found and often rediscovered in nature, and it is this spiritual connection that nourishes and inspires her art. Best captures this “moment” with acrylic in a modern impressionistic style, using entrancing outlines and colors to “freeze” the continual, everchanging movement of nature.