By Kiley Kellermeyer
BROWNSBURG
August 07, 2007 05:42 pm
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Some pictures may be worth a thousand words, but Lynne Medsker’s photos are worth a little more.
That’s because the Brownsburg wife, mother, and grandmother has taken photography to the next level.
“I started with photography,” she said. “There’s a lot you can do with that artistically. Then I got into photo processes, Polaroid transfers, coloring photos, and digital manipulation.”
This manipulation is Medsker’s bread and butter; she is fond of creating the extraordinary from the ordinary.
Medkser often creates mixed media pieces on canvas from recycled parts and extra bits of paper. She uses her skill in photography to capture an image, only to fuse that moment together with another in a colorful montage. And, she and her husband, Mark, create metal sculptures, decorations, and furniture from old, worn, discarded parts, tools, and other metal objects gathered from Mark’s work as a mechanic.
“Sometimes things just seem like they belong together,” Medsker said. “I’ll look at one thing and think ‘oh, that’d look really cool with this’ and they just kind of go together.”
So goes Medsker’s business — the business of beauty. The business of art. A business that began when she was a child.
Growing up, she spent much of her time involved in art. That was put on hold, or at least limited, during her 20’s and 30’s as she and Mark raised their four children.
After their youngest child reached high school, Medsker was able to pursue her passion again.
“It’s something that I have always enjoyed since I was young. I waited until my kids were older [to take up photography again],” she said. “I took photography classes through IUPUI and took all the classes to get the certificate but didn’t apply for the certificate. I knew what I was doing. I didn’t need the piece of paper.”
Since then, Medsker’s talent has blossomed from a portrait photographer to Photoshop guru and she has displayed her works of art at galleries in Hendricks County and Indianapolis, and she has sent pieces to competitions.
Medsker’s photo illustration centered on her newest grandchild recently took second place in the “creative or experimental” category for professional photographers at the Indiana State Fair.
Her grandson Reagan is but one of her artistic inspirations.
“I like to make things that are pretty,” Medsker said. “Some people have messages, but I like things that are beautiful. I try to put things together that are pretty and pleasing. Some of it is self expression, things I’ve gone through. That I like or don’t like.”
Medsker also said that art, be it her own or others’, has the ability to make people stop and think.
“If you surround yourself with art that you love, it makes your life better as a whole,” she said.
For Medsker, however, art provides more than a piece to ponder.
“It’s a release. It’s an escape,” she said. “When I don’t get to make art, I get grouchy. It’s a passion and it’s something I have to do.”
kiley.kellermeyer@flyergroup.com
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