Seventh generation Texan Lindy Cook Severns paints southwestern landscapes, dramatic skies, wildlife and wildflowers on location and in her studio.
The contemporary Texas impressionist grew up drawing and painting and began selling landscape paintings in galleries and painting commissioned portraits soon after graduation from Texas Tech University. A fourth-degree black belt in taekwondo, she a ran a family-oriented martial arts studio for many years while the mental discipline and hand-eye coordination of martial arts spilled over into her painting. A licensed pilot before her marriage, Lindy flew first officer on a corporate jet beside her pro pilot husband Jim for almost two decades. Thousands of hours at 41,000 feet gave the aviatrix/artist an insider's understanding of the dramatic skies that color many of her paintings today. Combine that with a degree in English and biology and the artist is the whole package, painting the world she knows.
Her landscapes are authentic, views of remote places in the wild American west, high desert ranch country, the Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend National Park, backroads in Central Texas and ventures into the Rockies, Taos and Santa Fe.
In 2004, the couple boldly quit their jobs, sold their custom-built Lubbock, Texas home of 26 years and bought big RV. They set out to see America the slow way, traveling backroads instead of jet routes. Ranch country, the high desert mountains near remote Fort Davis and Marfa snared them, and they spent 20 years waking at 6000 feet above some of the most majestic scenery in West Texas. Now in a more conventional home and studio in Midlothian, Texas, Lindy remains immersed in nature. She so intimately knows a landscape before she paints it, she's critically acclaimed for her "sense of place".
The 2020 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for the College of Arts and Sciences of Texas Tech University, Lindy's art hangs in most every state in the USA and in international collections. Selected as one of 35 artists for the definitive book TEXAS TRADITIONS, CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF THE LONE STAR STATE (McGarry and Duty 2010), she's also featured in a 2016 PBS documentary on creativity, WESTERN PERSPECTIVES.
Lindy and Jim enjoy the companionship of a fiercely loyal rescued Lhasa Apso and a cranky African Grey parrot who passionately loves art. She is represented by Old Spanish Trail Gallery and Museum , a unique art space on a working ranch outside Fort Davis, Texas where she served almost a decade as gallery director and artist-in-residence, at The V6 Collection gallery of the Gage Resort in Marathon outside Big Bend National Park, and at Vise, a casual Alpine, Texas cofffeehouse and gallery. Order cards, prints and original art through her online gallery LindyCSeverns.com.
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