About Lyn
Born May 7, 1952 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the daughter of Robert “Trav” Traverse, graphic designer of Post Cereal box fame. She moved to Chappaqua, NY at age 11 and has made New York and Connecticut her home since. (Trav still lives on the family farm in Decatur, MI.)
Lyn studied philosophy at NYU in the early 1970s, made a few movies (“Hobart Millard” and “Plainsong”), and has maintained her “day job” while painting whenever she can. Her medium is the unforgiving pen and ink and for a self-taught artist, this is even more of a challenge.
In the late 1970s she won Best in Show in an art show in the small New Hampshire town of Whitefield. In 2006 she was part of a group show of “Outsider” artists at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven in Connecticut. In 2011, Lyn’s art was featured on the front and inside back covers of Vintage magazine.
“I used to think if I had all the money in the world I would own a house, a car, and a wardrobe in every era from the 1890s to the 1960s. Then, when I started to do art, I realized I could have it all through my art.
I am fascinated by time and place. I collect old photographs and they inspire my art. When I do a picture, I go “there” and become a part of that time and place. Somehow I come to know the people and they come alive for me. Their world becomes my world for a time.
My favorite writer is Proust so I guess it is small wonder that so much of what I draw is a recapturing.”
Lyn D. Traverse
January 2016
“Different Time” gallery opening
Photos from the opening
