About Me
Lynn Ricci is a representational artist best known for capturing the seasonal beauty of New England. Ricci focuses on representational art -- realism and impressionistic oil paintings of coastal towns and islands from Massachusetts to Maine, the historical city of Boston, and the forests and farms further out in the country.
Lynn draws her inspiration from her New England surroundings. While growing up north of Boston, Lynn spent summers enjoying the beaches and her family's boat and admiring the coast and islands from Maine down to Rhode Island. Back home, she used paper and canvas to capture these sights.
Lynn went to school for a commercial arts certificate and attended Mass College of Art in Boston for fine arts until deciding not to pursue a career in the art world actively. Although her professional career path turned toward corporate roles, she never completely stopped painting and made a full return in 2013.
Lynn resides north of Boston with her family and springer spaniel, Fenway. Lynn is an associate member of Oil Painters of America, and her original work is available online, through gallery representation, and is available for painting commissions.
Gallery Representation:
FishAye Trading Company - Harwich, MA
Local Color Art Gallery - Chatham, MA
Norton Gallery - Padanaram Village, South Dartmouth, MA
Carolina Creations - New Bern, NC
Exhibitions & Shows
May 2024 - Spring Online Showcase - Oil Painters of America
April 2024 - "We Share One Sky" Juried show.
March 2024 - "Colors of March" Juried show at Newburyport Art Association
Fall 2023 - OPA Online Showcase
Summer 2023 - OPA Online Showcase
2020 - 2022 Exhibit break during COVID-19
May - June 2018 - Newburyport Art Association 21st Annual Regional Show
May-June 2018 - Cape Cod Arts Center's 2018 exhibit, Bay State Open.
March 2017 - Salem Art Association Juried Show - Member Showcase Grand Opening
May 2017 - Newburyport Art Association 20th Annual Regional Show
March 2017 -- Social Justice and Human Rights, Juried Show - Gallery 1581, Brookline
Feb 2017 -- Cape Cod Art Assoc - Artists Vision Juried Show
May 2016 – Newburyport Art Association 19th - Annual Regional Juried Show
Member of:
Oil Painters of America
The Newburyport Art Association
Artist Statement
There is beauty in most simple things in life, whether purely in color, the play of light or shadow, achieved by shape or contrast, or elevated through composition. When creating a painting, I look for these elements and try to capture an image that will evoke the same feeling for the viewer. My early influences ranged from the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. Still, later, when I began to paint, I was drawn more to the Impressionistic era of Benson, Sargent, Hassam, Degas, and Monet as they achieved great play of light and a sense of realism that presents the viewer with a simple scene to be enjoyed.
Stylistically, realism is a good choice for me as I enjoy capturing small details and pushing myself to achieve a true likeness to what I see and feel. Over time, I have gravitated from seascapes to urban settings that require a more architectural element and eye for form but have also produced more impressionistic impasto work. My work is primarily in oils as it allows time to work with the paint to achieve a broader spectrum, blending, and layering of color for the realist effect I seek.
About Giclee
Giclee (zhee-klay) - The French word "giclée" means a spray or a spurt of liquid. The word may have been derived from the French verb "gicler" meaning "to squirt". The term "giclee print" connotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high-resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction and completed with a UV blocking varnish.
Modern technology printers are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for both the fine art and photographic markets. A tremendous advantage of giclee printing is that digital images can be reproduced to almost any size and onto various media, giving the artist the ability to customize prints for a specific client.
The quality of the giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries. Numerous examples of giclee prints could originally be found in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Chelsea Galleries and are now widely found in museums and galleries worldwide and made available at auctions.