Lynn Cothern

Lynn Cothern paints and draws primarily in oil or acrylic, depending on her intention. She keeps sketchbooks using a variety of media—collage, gouache and other water-based media, oil pastels, and graphite or charcoal. She makes artist books both paper and fabric. Her first degree was a BA in art, with an emphasis in painting and drawing, and a minor in English. She studied art and bookbinding at the Corcoran School of Art and the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, both in Washington, DC; Penland School of Craft in North Carolina; Paper and Book Intensive, in Michigan; and the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia. She lived many years in the Pacific Northwest and many in the DC area, and moved to Roanoke, Virginia, in 2022.