Lucy A. Synk Fantasy Art

 

Graduating from Siena Heights College, MI., with a BFA in painting, drawing, and photography, Lucy moved to Kansas City, MO., to work for Hallmark Cards. Corporate work chafed, however, and she embarked on a 12-year career as a freelance fantasy artist.

Lucy has exhibited her art at science fiction conventions, Renaissance Festivals, and art fairs.  She sold illustrations to magazines and books in both the U.S. and Europe, most notably the cover for Andre Norton’s book Wizard’s Worlds (see my Homepage).  She also continued to hone her various skills in painting and portraiture. (Commissions will be open soon.)

She jumped to a new occupation in 1995 when she discovered the Natural History exhibit industry.  Working first for Chase Studio in southern MO and then for Taylor Studios in Rantoul IL, Lucy painted murals and illustrations for over ten years. She considers her Cretaceous mural, installed at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL, the high point of that career.

Lucy’s creative energy is not all spent on her art.  She has completed a Master’s degree in Theology from Loyola University in New Orleans, and hopes to use it to explore her interests in science and faith, feminine spirituality and fantasy/SF as modern myth. The painting Ruach reflects these interests, portraying the creative Spirit of God as female, because the Hebrew word is feminine in gender.

Currently Lucy is a bookseller at Pages For All Ages, an independent bookstore. She painted a mural for their children’s department, and coordinates the art exhibits that Pages hosts year round.

She is looking forward to whatever adventures life has still to bring. In addition to the Pages for all Ages mural, her work can be viewed year-round at the Wind, Water and Light Gallery in downtown Champaign.

 

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Check out my other work at the Wind Water and Light Gallery!

 

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