By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by contemporary Swedish landscape painter Lena Thynell (born 1955 in Sweden). 

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Lena moved to the United States in the summer of 2011. She lives with her husband nearby State College, PA. Lena got her education in watercolor painting at the Gerlesborg Art School in Sweden, located north of Gothenburg on the beautiful Swedish west coast.

 

She is an art instructor at the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania. After a long career as a registered nurse, nurse midwife and department head in Sweden, watercolor has now become an important part of her life. She has recently started to paint on location, "en plein air," which gives her much joy and new inspiration. "It's a challenge to paint on location and that's what I like," Lena states.   

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Lena has participated in Juried Art Shows as well as solo art shows in Sweden and has recently started to show and sell her work in the USA.
 

Lena achieved Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Signature Status, PWS, in 2015 and Philadelphia Watercolor Society Signature Status 2016.She received a Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Honorary Award in 2014 for her watercolor painting "Water Ways." Lena is on the Bellefonte Art Museum art registry and a member of Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania.

 

Shows and Awards 

 

• Honorable Mention Award Winner at 2014 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society's 35 Annual International Juried Exhibition.

       Painting sold at exhibition.

 

• Juried Plein Air Events

       2016, October. Harford Plein Air Juried Event, MD. 

 

• Juried Art Shows USA

• 2016 Philadelphia Watercolor Society's 116th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper

• 2015 Bellefonte Art Museum of Central PA, Landscapes of Central Pennsylvania

• 2015 Images 2015. Juried Gallery Exhibition of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

• 2015 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society's 36 International Juried Exhibition

• 2015 Philadelphia Watercolor Society 115th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper

• 2015 Pittsburgh Watercolor Society Aqueous Open 2015 69th Annual International Exhibition

• 2014 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society's 35 Annual International Juried Exhibition

• 2013 Art Alliance of Central PA Juried Show 2013 at the Robeson Gallery, Penn State University  

• 2012 Juried Show, Art Alliance of Central PA  

• 2012 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Schlow Centre Library, State College PA

 

Solo/Group Exhibitions USA

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• 2016 Bellefonte Art Museum of Central PA

• 2016 Farmland Preservation Artist's of Central Pennsylvania group exhibition, Millheim, Pennsylvania 

• 2015 Centre Furnance Mansion State College

• 2013, 2014, 2015 Art Alliance Instructors' Show at Schlow Centre Region Library State College

• 2013, 2014 State Theatre State College PA   

  

Exhibitions Sweden 

 

• 2008 Osterakers Varsalong, ABB Kabeldon Alingsas, Stadshuset Lidkoping

• 2007 Vanermuseet lidkoping, hostsalongen Edsviks Konsthall Stockholm, Galleri Femman Lidkoping, Grand Hotel Alingsas

• 2005-2006 Stockholms Konstsalong Hagaparken

• 2004-2008 Sabylund Konstgard Tjorn

• 2004 Dergardsgalleriet Lerum