Lynn Stanley practices the craft of Asian brush painting in the River Arts District of Asheville, N.C. She appears in our recent story on the River Arts District in the most recent issue of Artsee -- too brief of a mention, though.
In front of her studio: a Zen garden made of bamboo from Black Mountain.
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Lynn learned her craft from a man who lives in Florida and whose history includes painting Mao on barns in rural China as part of his service while imprisoned for 30 years.
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"I realized how visually gorgeous the [Chinese] language is," said Stanley.
"If you don't have a poem with your painting, it's not quite finished."
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The name of Lynn's Silver Poem Studio is derived from a haiku by Kyoshi:
Deftly the new moon
brushes the silver poemon the tips of waves.
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