In the mid 2000s, when Lynn’s career as a business-travel journalist was petering out, she began painting plein air on the streets and abandoned railways of her adopted city of Kingston, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. She showed her work at The Living Room, a gallery in Uptown Kingston, and had some success until 2008, when the economy collapsed. Subsequently she wrote prolifically for the local media; her artreviews appeared regularly in Ulster Publishing’s Almanac and she interviewed artists for Chronogram. Lynn has loved looking at painting since her mother took her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art at age 4, an interest that blossomed when she earned a B.A. in art history from Barnard College, in 1978. She has visited many of the world’s top art museums and the Parthenon and in 2013 undertook a tour of Piero della Francesca’s frescoes in northern Italy. Long summer stays at a family camp in the Adirondacks when she was growing up fostered an interest in the area’s social history that resulted in numerous articles in Adirondack Life magazine, including the first contemporary in-depth article on the 10,000-year history of Native Americans in the region. Lynn also co-wrote Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges, published by Universe Books in 2010. The streetscape of cities and the unfortunate removal of much of their historic fabric has also been an interest and culminated in a documentary film about Kingston’s 1960s urban renewal program entitled Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, which she co-produced and co-directed with Stephen Blauweiss. The film, which won several awards, was completed in 2016 and can be streamed on Amazon. And she has continued to write about visual art: In 2023, she wrote the catalog essay for exhibitions of the work of Mary Frank, Grace Wapner, and David Hornung. But Lynn has increasingly committed herself to painting and has recently shown her work at the Upstairs Gallery at Old Dutch Church, Lace Mill Gallery, and Arts Society of Kingston, in Kingston; Emerge Gallery, in Saugerties; Gallery Lev Shalem at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation and Woodstock School of Art, in Woodstock, and Hutchinson Wielgus Gallery, in Vieques, Puerto Rico. She’s honed her craft by participating in classes at the Woodstock School of Art and in artist-taught workshops. She has learned much from Andrew Wykes, at a workshop at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, in County Mayo, Ireland; from Catherine Kehoe, at Fine Arts Work Center in Province Town, Mass.; from Graham Nickson at a drawing marathon at the New York Studio School; from an online months-long workshop sponsored by the New York Studio School with Clintel Steed; and many others.