Bio

About Lynn Pilewski

Lynn has been an artist since she was a small girl. She started ballet classes at two and used her sculpting talents to make sand castles at the beach every weekend.  A precocious child, she sang her favorite songs (word for word) from The Sound of Music by age three. Strangely, the one art she had no use for was photography as a result of her father posing the family endlessly for pictures. To a child, standing around posing for photographs was insanely boring.  Happily, as an adult, Lynn finds photography the perfect medium to satisfactorily express her vision.

Lynn is a native Floridian, born and raised in Ft Lauderdale. She went to Florida State University, where she studied in the BFA program at the School of Theatre specializing in lighting design and stage management. Lynn spent three years in NYC pursuing her theatre career, which eventually landed her back in Florida at the Jupiter Theatre where she met her husband, Greg. They spent the next several years in the Palm Beach area before moving to Orlando. The hurricane season of 2004 provided the impetus for a move away from Florida and other hurricane prone areas. When deciding where they wanted to move, a large map of the United States was procured. They then shaded out any states that were prone to hurricanes, blizzards, tornados, desert heat, and earthquakes. That left them with the Blue Ridge / Great Smoky Mountains area and Seattle. On their first visit to the Blue Ridge, Lynn and Greg knew they’d found their home.

The mountains of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee were a totally new world to Lynn, who was familiar with tropical surroundings. Every season brought a new delight and inspiration. From the delicate bulbs of early spring flowers to the autumn leaf colors, she felt compelled to try to capture the details of the world around her with her camera. She approaches every image with the enchantment of a child whose imagination is almost overloaded by sight and smell. No detail is too small or mundane to be overlooked.

To that end, Lynn uses her camera and digital darkroom techniques to bring forth her unique vision of nature’s splendor. Each image is a celebration of the beautiful things in life – capturing just a moment in time that she hopes will bring a revelation to the viewer.

Her photography can be seen at a wide range of venues, from private homes across the country to the US Pentagon.  Her work, “Territorial”, is part of The Fujifilm Print Collection on exhibit at Fujifilm Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc. and was recently featured on the National Geographic Magazine website.

Lynn currently lives in Taylors, South Carolina, where she and her husband Greg enjoy the amazing beauty that the area has to offer.