Lynn Schmidt, born on Andrews Air Force Base, MD in the late 50's, is the second child in a career Air Force
family,. She began her simple art career at the tender
age of 18 months when she was impressed by a photograph of a mother
pig and all of her baby pigs in a World Book Encyclopedia. Using pink
paper, Lynn drew one large oval with several smaller ovals and lots of
curling lines thus creating her first drawing. (She was definitely an impressionist from the start).
Sixteen
years later, Lynn was exploring drawing and painting at the University
of Georgia. In 1980 she received her first camera upon graduation, to document her art so that she could get a job during a time of economic hardship. Realizing that she needed to be able to feed herself, she
began "teaching art". It was during her first year of teaching that Lynn was "forced" to take her first photography
class because she had to teach a class in this "craft" art form. She was upset because her purist philosophy
was "any monkey can hold a box and make photographs". Thanks to the
instructors at the Atlanta College of Art, she learned how much she did
not know about composition and the pure art of photography, and fell in love with a medium that she could manipulate to her
personal level of perfection.
Thirty years later, she still has a
passion for the darkroom but has reconnected with her first love of drawing.
Manipulating the mixed media of drawing, digital photography, and layers, Lynn has created imagery for the purpose of story telling. She
hopes in the future to create imagery using current technologies to create multimedia imagery that will use music, dance, creative writing, video, and still imagery in work that we be responsive to the sensitivities of the modern collector.
Lynn Schmidt is currently living with husband and two beloved dachshunds, Oliver and Winnie. She has three grown and independent children Ian, Alexander, & Erica.
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