Lynette Redner

Lynette Redner

American Artist

b. 1964

Lynette's entire life has been filled with art. She was born into a farm family of 5. Within her family were multiple creative interests in music, woodworking, and art. Her sister, Lu Ann Redner Widergren helped encourage Lynette's art interests by holding drawing competitions with the neighbor kids and helping with 4H art projects. On the family farm, Lynette's love of animals and nature became her universe. She had years of owning horses.

Lynette was too young to remember when the process of drawing and painting began but she remembers selling her first drawing (a giraffe) in first grade for 25 cents. In high school, she was at a crossroads; she chose to go down the nursing degree path, but she never abandoned the drawing and painting and knew that someday she would be back to art full time. Much of her nursing career was also filled with paintings, medical illustrations, murals and pet portrait commissions. Often, she decorated hospital walls and windows for the holidays, small drawings for patients, or the cover-up gowns of the staff to the delight of the patients. Art to her, can assist with healing the emotions as well as aiding in the physical healing pathway. Her nursing took her across much of the United States opening her eyes to the love of landscape. The work ethic in the nursing field lent itself to Lynette's productivity and professionalism as an artist. She has passion, determination, focus and discipline.

Lynette Redner has essentially managed her choices in her own art education and art pathway, through selections of art workshops, instructional books, podcasts, magazines ,videos, and a virtual mentorship with a professional artist in Minnesota. She believes, the learning never stops in an artist's journey.

Her paintings are mostly done in watercolor or oil. She is known for her rural landscapes, horse and animal paintings, as well as dog portraits. She is said to capture the personality of each animal. In landscape, she shares the energy and connection of the moment with the viewer. She paints from her two studios: a home studio, near Richmond, Wisconsin, and another studio in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

In 2023, she completed her first book, Barnyard Talk. Where she had fun creating the animals one would find in the barnyard. These were painted using oil paint. She has ideas for other books, but we will have to wait to see if they get off the ground!