About Us

Valerie Lynch

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."-Rumi "I love beauty. I try to see the magic in everything and the interconnectedness of life. The process of creating is a union between body, mind and environment. It is meditation in action. I want to share that energy with the viewer. I want to communicate a shared connection. My work is figurative and abstract moving back and forth and somewhere in between." Valerie Lynch has been doing art since she was a child. Brought up by an artist and art director father and a nurturing loving mother, she has been able to experience the art process throughout her whole life. Graduating Carnegie-Mellon with a Fine Arts degree she went straight into advertising at Ogilvy and Mather as an art director for ten years. Getting her Masters in Art Education at night, she left advertising and became a high school art teacher for 13 years. In 2008 she took a leave of absence and has decided to leave teaching and paint full time. Valerie paints from life and uses her original photographs. She works in her studio or en plein air. Valerie works primarily in watercolor, acrylic, pastel and encaustic. Her monotype work uses various water based medias and inks. She uses both acrylic and gelatin plates. Prints are made on a press or by hand. She lives happily in South Salem with her husband Peter and step-daughter Jen and their fabulous felines.

Peter Lynch

Mr. Lynch has worked, for 31 years as an independent analyst and investor in small emerging technology companies. He has been actively involved in following developments in the renewable energy sector since 1977 and is regarded as an expert in this field. He was the contributing editor for the past 17 years to the Photovoltaic Insider Report, the leading publication in Photovoltaics industry that was directed at industrial subscribers, such as major energy companies, utilities and governments around the world.

Peter and Valerie Lynch: Tapping the sun to run the home
Written by Matt Dalen

Thursday, October 23, 2008: As the price of energy rises and the economy declines, more and more people are looking at ways to save money and help the environment by limiting their energy use and finding renewable ways of generating energy. Peter and Valerie Lynch of South Salem... (click here to read more)