“People often ask how long I have been painting. And I tell them I have been an artist since my earliest recollection.” Artist and Long Island native, Lynn Mara is a prolific painter that captures the American spirit through her iconic works. Her multifaceted tableaus preserve American culture with modern flair. Mara’s paintings are “big,” executed in her signature bold color, layers of under painting and mixed media, particularly in her more recent mixed media collage work that that she refers to as “conversation starters.” These are painstakingly arranged and packed with various media, historical context, and scriptural or lyrical “truths” that reflect on popular American issues and topics in an amusing way.