Spotlight on 2022 Grant Recipient Show artist Terry Lynn Spry
Terry Lynn Spry is one of sixteen artists who is exhibiting work in the Fort Myers 2022 Biennial Individual Artist Grant Recipient Show in the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center May 6-26. Her medium being oil on canvas, Terry Lynn loves to create paintings that tell stories. She considers painting the same as breathing and better than chocolate.
Spry’s paintings have been exhibited in both local and national juried shows. In 2021, she took part in the COVID-delayed Fort Myers 2020 Biennial Individual Artist Grant Recipient Show. Two years earlier, she took first place in Mirrors and Reflections at Arts for ACT Gallery and second place in Dia de Muertos at the Alliance for the Arts. 
In 2016, she received first prize honors in the Southwest Florida Art Council show at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center. She also won an honorable mention in 2021 in The Artist Magazine annual art competition.
A four-time Individual Artist Grant Recipient, Terry Lynn graduated from Phoenix Institute of Technology with a degree in production art. She studied under Nina Conner.
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About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.