LINDY COOK SEVERNS

Southwest Landscapes and Wind-Swept Skies

Midlothian, Texas

Spinning the Setting Sun 16x20 pastel Lindy C Severns

SPINNING THE SETTING SUN 16" x 20" pastel © Lindy Cook Severns $4700

artist lindy cook severns with plein air easel and pastels

Texas landscape painter Lindy Cook Severns works both en plein air and in her studio. Two decades in the Davis Mountains and Big Bend give her paintings authenticity and a sense of place.

Big Bend Artist

Lindy Cook Severns

Old Spanish Trail Gallery and Museum hangs original Lindy Cook Severns pastels , varnished watercolors and oils.

Former Director of Art of the American West for Heritage Auction Gallery, author Michael Duty wrote about the artist he mentored: "Lindy has an amazing ability to capture both the bold colors and dramatic formations of the far West Texas landscape, but also the subtle variations in light and shading... she can skillfully present the grandest of vistas, but she also equally masters the most delicate details of sand, rock, and grass. She is particularly adept at painting the western sky in all of its drama and color. When I look at Lindy’s work, I feel an immediate kinship with her vision and love of the western landscape."

Restless Energy

5' x 5" oil ©Lindy C Severns
$575 includes shipping

blue mountains against blue sunrise with purple sage pastel painting Lindy Cook Severns

Dawn Bloom
18" x 38" pastel © Lindy Cook Severns
$6200 SOLD

Walking Above the Fog

18" x 18" framed pastel
© Lindy C Severns
$2600 includes shipping

Our Davis Mts gallery also offers matted one-of-a-kind, hand-repainted prints, highly affordable matted mini-prints and notecards by the contemporary Texas artist.

artist lindy cook severns paints with pastels on location in the davis mountains of west texas

Lindy Cook Severns paints authentic southwest landscapes, skyscapes, wildlife and nature in soft pastels, varnished watercolors and in traditional oils. Her dramatic, sweeping skyscapes are nationally acclaimed.

The native Texan's vibrant landscape paintings, fresh, yet intricately and accurately detailed, document the essence of wilderness before civilization forever alters it. Her close connection with Big Bend country and the Davis Mountains of Far West Texas, as well as the Texas canyonlands, Central Texas and the Rockies is apparent no matter what medium she uses to express vast horizons and wild, sweeping landscapes.

For two decades, Lindy copiloted a corporate jet for husband Jim, who insists flying gave the artist her affinity for painting skies. The couple's hikes and drives provide other painting subjects.

Painting the energy and motion of a subject is as important to Lindy as accurate drawing. In her skyscapes, you sense the winds aloft. You feel, as much as see grass waving in her landscapes' impressionistic foregrounds. Always, she paints what she knows, and that shows in her work.

More About Artist Lindy Cook Severns

Home Base and Inspiration:

After over 20 years of traveling and living in an RV on a mountainside at Crows Nest Ranch, Lindy, along with husband Jim, an African Grey parrot and a rescued terrier, Lindy calls Midlothian, Texas "home"

Credentials:

the 2020 Texas Tech University College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni
BA in English/Biology, Texas Tech University
2022 Big Bend Artist For Conservation, Borderlands Research Institute, Sul Ross State University
Solo Exhibition 2018: Across West Texas

Sibley Nature Center, Midland, Texas

Best of Show Awards in invitational museum exhibits:
- Trappings of Texas (Museum of the Big Bend, Michael Duty, judge)
- Texas Art on Main Street Invitational Exhibit (Dallas Heritage Village Museum, Director of the Amon Carter Museum Dr. Ron Tyler, judge
Featured Artist, Dallas Heritage Village Plein Air Invitational Exhibit 2012
3-Artist Panel: Dallas Heritage Auction Gallery 2010 Texas Artists Invitational Exhibit Gala Opening

Publication Favorites:

TEXAS TRADITIONS, CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF THE LONE STAR STATE | Susan Hallsten McGarry & Michael Duty 2010
WESTERN PERSPECTIVES, PBS Documentary 2016 episode #5 in which Lindy talks about art and creativity
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY 2021 Holiday Greeting and Video, College of Arts & Sciences