Beauty abounds in the hills, rivers and fields of Kentucky. Plein air oil painting allows Lynn Dunbar to be amidst nature, breathing the fresh air, hearing the birds sing, and feeling the sun, breeze (and sometimes rain) against her skin.
Lynn started her art career as an advertising art director, and found her way to oil painting through workshops with Wolf Kahn, John Michael Carter, Jill Carver, Bill Fletcher and Skip Whitcomb.
Her colorful Impressionist style reflects her ability at Capturing the Spirit of Kentucky©. Her work includes paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture reflecting horse racing, national parks and the Louisville and the Kentucky area. Her artwork is featured on the 2018 Kentucky Derby and Oaks Posters available at Churchill Downs, and is also featured on the 2018 Holiday Edition of Woodford Reserve Bourbon.
She has participated in, and won awards for her oil paintings in plein air competitions on the local and national level. She won Best Agricultural Landscape in the Gloucester Arts Festival 2025, First Prize in the T C Steele Fall Plein Air Paint Out 2024, and Grand Prize in the 2023 Alexandria, Louisiana, Farm to Forest Plein Air Paint Out, 3rd Place 2022 Glen Arbor, Michigan Paint Out, and Purchase Prize in the 2019 American Impressionist Small Works Show in Petosky, Michigan, Award of Merit 2016.
Her work is featured in the September 2017 Plein Air Magazine. Her memberships include Signature Status of American Impressionist Society, and longtime member of Indiana Plein Air Painters.
She enjoys hiking, yoga, Pickleball and volunteer work.
Lynn Dunbar Oil Paintings
St. Matthews Studios & Gallery
3716 Lexington Road, Louisville, KY 40207
Sailor's Dream - Watercolor
Porch Reader - Oil
Secret Garden - Oil
Penny's Garden - Oil
Run Like the Wind
(Based on LaCaux cave paintings)
The Race Horse of LaCaux
Joy - Bronze Sculpture