Lynne Cannoy’s work has been critically acclaimed as “superbly evocative.” She works in pastel, which she favors for its immediacy of application and its malleability in blending for an interplay of definition and mystery. Her illustrations have garnered numerous citations and awards, including a gold Addy Award, and recognition by the New York Society of Illustrators, the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, and Print Magazine. She has created numerous theater posters, as well as book and magazine covers and illustrations for a wide range of advertising, editorial, and corporate clients. Her first illustrated children’s book, The Young Reader’s Shakespeare: Macbeth, was published by Sterling in 2004.

In Lynne’s highly stylized paintings, line is the underlying skeletal structure, tone provides the muscle, and hue is its skin. Her subjects are frequently deconstructed and intermingled with their environment, allowing each to shape and animate the other. Her work explores how environment and subject affect each other; how boundaries, shadows, and projections, both material and psychological, create the space in which a subject exists, and how the space in which it exists shapes the subject. By juxtaposing and mingling a subject with its surroundings, she draws upon the tension of perception and metaphor to articulate a theme on varied levels.

Lynne has a BFA in Communication Arts + Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and lives with her husband, Keith Knecht, in Pittsburgh, PA.

Partial list of clients:
Corporate: Alcoa, Bayer, Emcor, Jennmar, Kennametal, Megator, UPMC.

Publishing: Tor Books, Simon & Schuster, Sterling.

Advertising: General Nutrition Center, Pet Supplies Plus.

Entertainment: Pittsburgh Public Theater, Mountaineer Racetrack & Gaming Resort, WGN-TV.

Editorial: Bank Director, Computer Publishing Group, Medical Economics. 

Affiliations:
Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators