Lynn Peterfreund
Lynn Peterfreund has been working as a painter, printmaker and art educator since receiving her MFA in 1980 from Pratt Institute. Her work reflects her interests in both representational and abstract art. Her most recent bodies of work are monotypes and monoprints that employ a vocabulary of forms based on years of working from observation of nature, still life and the figure. The prints emphasize color, composition and personal interpretations of forms and the landscape. Lynn has taught at a variety of institutions over the past thirty years. Her work is included in hundreds of private and corporate collections. Her mural work can be seen in hospitals, schools, bookstores, museums, and homes in western Massachusetts and beyond. http://www.peterfreund.com/lynn/
Individualized Instruction
My strengths as a teacher: I love language, I am trained to see well and I thoroughly enjoy working with people. The idea that I’ve been teaching art for almost forty years startles me but it adds up to a level of experience and comfort I have and offer students. The breadth of my own work in printmaking and painting in both abstract and representational modes, gives me the range to help students see possibilities for developing what they are trying to express in a variety of ways. Color, formal description, composition, expression are the things I stress in all the classes I teach whether it is drawing, painting or printmaking. Monotype printmaking in combination with intaglio (drypoint, photo polymer, etching, aquatint, spit bite), relief work and mixed media, has been the focus of my own work for the last decade. In addition to the technical skills of monotype printing with oil based inks and basic intaglio techniques, I can offer a student ideas for critiquing their work, developing series and ideas, breaking habits. I think of doing and teaching art as a practice and offer a students strategies for finding for themselves.