Born and educated in Toronto, Ontario, Lynn Soehner is an internationally sought professional artist whose paintings in acrylic are recognized for being graphically bolder with rich, exotic colors, offering a kind of cadence or rhythm which evokes the “Spirit of Place”.
Soehner’s work is frequently used on products and in magazines to convey the “feeling” of the location. Her work has been featured most recently in Kauai Magazine, Summer Edition, 2003, a cover on the Kauai Visitor Guide, October 2003, selected for the cover of Malie Kai Chocolates, 2004-2007 (available in high end stores throughout Hawaii and Continental USA), the cover of Poetry Canada, Spring 2005, article in Spirit of Aloha, May/June 2005, on the cover of “The Future Looks Bright”, published 2006, Toronto Star 04/09/06, Fine Art Connoisseur December 2006, and www.iatwm.com, December 2006, featured on Ministry of Ontario Economic and Trade website, and featured image with Cornerston52Foundation, a Canadian children’s fundraiser. She is one of twenty-five contemporary artists who recently embarked on a spiritual journey to the Arctic in July 2006, celebrating the crossing of the northwest passage 100 years later.
Participated in over 150 solo, group, and invitational shows, of which more than 50 were juried ; Received more than 25 awards including the Kahn Gallery Award;Over 25 commissions have been completed in Kauai and Canada, More than 500 images in private and public collections throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and the British Isles
Art Education with Haliburton School of Fine Art, Canada; Instituto d’Allende and Belles Artes, San Miguel d’Allende, Mexico; Toronto School of Art, Canada, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada
