This is the fourth in a series highlighting the talented Blue Buffalo artists whose work will be on display at the MonDak Heritage Center in Sidney during the month of October.
Lynne Jordan works in oils, watercolors and pastels to bring her viewers into the world of National Parks where she spent many years of her life. She has also mastered what she calls pyrographic sculpture, her state of the art technique in wood burning and light carving on three-dimensional driftwood. This art form originally began in Russia and moved to the United States in the 1700s. Jordan has advanced this art form into the 21st Century with realism in western and wildlife subject matter.
Jordan explains her subject matter this way. “I was born and reared in western National Parks where, behind the front lines of tourist gatherings, lies a world of wild and secluded life. I spent a great deal of my childhood hiking among the hidden glens where I would sit for hours watching the private life of ‘wild’ unfold before me.
Whether I am portraying the elusive lynx, or the people that survived the hardships of the West long ago, I look for that brief moment of deep personal awareness. I want to share with the viewer the ability to move in unobserved…to sit beside the young pioneer girl as she reties the laces of her worn-out boots; to smell the breath of a bull elk on a crisp fall morning in the high country; or to share the flight of an eagle on his way home to feed his young.”
Jordan studied art at the University of Oregon, New Mexico State University and the Lesnick Art Studio in Las Vegas, NV. Her work is represented in dozens of galleries and she continues to keep up with the customers’ demand for her work. She has received numerous awards and has had many one-woman exhibitions. Jordan now resides in Bounder City, Nevada.
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