In The Artist Studio: Lucy Synk

We are headed back into the Artists Studio to meet Lucy Synk, a professional artist with over 40 years of experience living and working at the Cedar Street Art Collective in Lansing.

What started at Siena Heights College, with a BFA, then took Lucy to Kansas City, MO., to work for Hallmark Cards. After 3 years developing cards with Hallmark, she embarked on a career as a full-time freelance fantasy artist for almost 15 years.

Her art has been exhibited in galleries, science fiction conventions, renaissance festivals and art fairs. She has even published illustrations and book covers in the U.S. and Europe, including the cover for Andre Norton’s book Wizard’s Worlds. Known for her creative energy, it is not all spent on her art. With a Master’s degree in Theology from Loyola University New Orleans, she explored her interests in science and faith, feminine spirituality and fantasy/science fiction as modern myth.

Having discovered the opportunities that exist in the exhibit industry for natural history, Lucy painted murals and illustrations for over a decade - a favorite piece being a 40’ long mural of the Cretaceous era.

Most recently, Lucy worked in Chicago as an educational children’s illustrator for T.S.Shure, before returning to Michigan where she is now exploring new avenues of creativity, including mixed media and “dirty-pour” painting. Now as a member of a plein air group, Lucy rediscovered her love of still-life painting, and began an ambitious new series of paintings on the diversity of America with the first finished piece, “Halloween in Oak Park.”