Lyn Hiner named as Feature Artist at the PittsbURgh Vintage Grand PRix's Cortile 2023

by Bernard Martin

Seraphina - 1973 Ferrari Dino 246, 60” x 48” Acrylic on canvas with silver leafing, by GTS Lyn Hiner, $20,200

PITTSBURGH, PA - Artist Lyn Hiner has been announced as the featured artist at the Cortile Italian Car Show at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix's 2023 event featuring Ferrari as the Marque of the Year. 

Lyn is an internationally recognized palette knife painter based in Southern California.  Known for portraying expectedly detailed elements through an emotionally expressive application, Lyn’s bold colors and palette knife strokes create a sense of energy on the canvas revealing a beautifully unique perspective.

​Her  palette knife technique is reminiscent of  Impasto without quite the thickness.  Rob, her husband, says that her style most closely resembles Abstract Expressionism which is defined as an Impressionist-style, but with an emphasis on varying measures of abstraction.  Lyn says it's more of an emotive expressive approach. 

What you will find mesmerizing about Lyn's work is how it draws you in from afar.  Each piece can capture you and then you find yourself moving closer.  ​

You are attracted to it more and more as your eyes try to translate the colors and abstract lines of each highly recognizable piece in your mind.
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​But the colors are bolder than what you expect as the norm, more vibrant.  
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More "emotive" is really the right word. And you move in closer.

You start to note how the palette knife strokes are not what you might have thought, with each layer applied. That's when you will recognize the talent of the artist that you are seeing in front of you. 

You step back and take it in again.  Realizing how close Lyn was to the canvas when applying the colors, and how that drew you in from afar.  

The entire sum of the applied paints conveys not just the texture but also how the eye translates and understands the image.  

That's when you get the feeling. That same feeling you get after just washing your car and seeing it shine again. When the colors aren't dulled but wet and shiny.  It's almost like taking a top layer off to release the freshest and brightest pigments and wishing that they won't dry and fade.  

In Lyn's work, they don't.

An excerpt from Avants Magazine by Karl Noakes

It's the continuation of the idea of capturing light explored by the Impressionists, the bold use of color pioneered by Matisse and The Fauves, but dripping like a Jackson Pollock.  We think you will enjoy the show inside the Clubhouse and the works on display in the Reception Tent.

Alessia - 1967 Lamborghini Miura, 30” x 20” Acrylic on canvas, Lyn Hiner $4200

LYN HINER'S PETROL COLLECTION

Launched in November 2017, Lyn’s "Petrol" collection was first debuted at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas and is now regularly featured at juried fine art shows, galleries and distinguished automo-
tive exhibitions internationally:

• ArtExpo San Diego
  
• ArtExpo San Dallas
  
• Audrain Newport Concours & Motor Week
  
• Beverly Hills Art Show
  
• Cavallino Classic
  
• Gallery 500 Daytona Beach FL
  
• Global Auto Salon Riyadh Saudi Arabia
  
• Goodwood Revival UK
  
• Laguna Beach Festival of Arts
  
• La Jolla Concours D’elegance
  
• Pebble Beach Concours’ RetroAuto
  
• Petersen Automotive Museum
  
• Saratoga Automobile Museum
  
• SEMA Show
• The Amelia,
  
• The Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel
  
• The Thermal Club and more.

EXPLORE LYN'S OTHER PETROL WORKS:

• BENTLEY
• CADILLAC
• CHEVY
• COBRA
• DINO
• DODGE
• EMBLEM
• FERRARI
• FORD
• GT40
• JAGUAR
• LAMBORGHINI
• MASERATI
• MCLAREN
• MERCEDES
• MUSTANG
• PACKARD
• PONTIAC
• PORSCHE
• ROLLS ROYCE
• VOLKSWAGON
• VW