G'day viewers, my name's Graeme Stevenson, and I'd like to invite you to come on a
journey of creativity and learning and adventure through the series Colour In Your Life.
There's an artist in every family throughout the world.
Lots of times there's an artist deep down inside all of us as well.
So grab your kids, your brothers, your sisters, your aunties, uncles,
and mums and dads and come and see how some of the best artists do what they do.
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(Graeme) Okay folks, well we are in Melbourne for
this particular session, and the very talented lady, she calls herself an
abstract colourist. And also, also one of Australia's
leading singing coaches from the Jaanz International Singing
Academy down here in Melbourne, and we're also part of your gallery, which
is the York Street Gallery, so we're very privileged to be here.
Lynn Jaanz, welcome to the show. (Lynn) Thank you, Graeme. (Graeme) Great to be here. Now
Lynn and her darling husband David, have been singing coaches for
some years now, and actually brought some of the most famous Australian singers
to literally the premier of their careers haven't you? It's been quite amazing. I mean Delta Goodrem
for a start, who literally has gone overseas to go on to fantastic accolades.
But your journey as far as an artist is concerned
really came about because of an illness many years ago.
(Lynn) Very much so, yes. (Graeme) and is sort of developed with your, your spiritual
relationship, your relationship with God, (Lynn) That's right. (Graeme) has brought you literally to a place now
where you, I think you paint your destiny in these stories
that you have within your work. Tell me a little bit about when you first
started this? I mean you literally ended up almost dying didn't you? (Lynn) I ah,
I've had, you know of one, but I've had two or three
near death experiences, (Graeme) Aha. (Lynn) but the one
that I had seven years ago was, yeah, I thought
that was it. (Graeme) Aha. (Lynn) I was leaving this earth. Many years ago
I was a chronic sufferer, I was in and out of
hospital having operations every eight months,
on Lyrica, on every medication you could think of. I had a
walking stick. I was told I couldn't have kids. I'm trying to jam it all.
A doctor in Caulfield said that
I would eventually be in a wheelchair by the time I'm forty.
Do I tell my age? (Graeme) Yeah, well she doesn't look her age I
can assure you of that, it's pretty amazing so. (Lynn) And he
suggested that I use art as a form of my healing. (Graeme) Yeah.
(Lynn) And it has been amazing because
that lead me to something higher. (Graeme) Yeah. (Lynn) I'm
a great believer in Jesus. I've got a relationship with him now
and I think my inspiration comes from that.
(Graeme) So you would call yourself an abstract, impressionist,
colourist, (Lynn) That's it. Impressionist, (Graeme) would that be the best way to put it. (Lynn) abstract, colourist. (Graeme) yeah. (Lynn) Lovely.
(Graeme) Fantastic so, well you're going to do a small piece for us today and
we're going to talk a little bit more about your journey and the amazing
things that you do for the very talented people right across this country. And you
and David are you know, the pinnacles, the King and the Queen of
teaching these young people how to change their lives for the better under any circumstances. And you
are such an optimist, which is one of the most wonderful parts about you. Is that you inject
that into other people, and then they go on to create amazing things for themselves.
I'm going to step out of shot right now, and I'm going to let you start what you're doing, and then I'm going to
bombard you with some questions as we go along. Fascinating human being, I mean you've been through
a great deal in her life, to come to a place where she changes other peoples lives
for the better, and part of that is her art as well. So I'm out of here and lets
see what you can do.
(Graeme) Okay Lynn, well you really paint
from a great deal of feeling and spiritualism. And you
describe that there's a place you go to called your secret place,(Lynn) Lovely place. (Graeme) which
yeah, (Lynn) We should all go there. (Graeme) yeah, absolutely, I agree. But it enables you
to produce the pieces you have over the years as well. And obviously you've got
fans in Milan, and Rome, and Singapore, and New York, and you're selling
internationally right across the world. How do you actually start one of these pieces?
(Lynn) It's almost like you have to clear your mind,
singing our techniques, emotion centred singing,
so therefore, I can't seperate that from
painting. An artist is an artist, so whether you sing
or whether you paint, to me they're actually the same.
So you find that spot and be still
and let the paintbrush do its work. I
for today I'm going to start off with a purple,
and just put a little bit in there.
(Graeme) So you were originally born in Egypt, as well. (Lynn) That's correct.
Greek origin. (Graeme) So from your family background is
Greek is that correct? (Lynn) Yes, I was born in Alexandria, (Graeme) Okay.
(Lynn) and yeah, came out here in 1957 which gives
away my age, so you'll have to work it out. (Graeme) You
were one. (Lynn) I was six months old, and (Graeme) There you go. (Lynn) this is crazy,
but I actually stopped breathing on the boat as well
which is all in my book. (Graeme) Yeah, your book is, A Journey from
Heaven to Healing. (Lynn) Yeah. (Graeme) I suppose you could say it's a really
inspirational tale of you know, how you as a young
woman were so sick, and then found the spiritualism that you
have these days in conjunction with that art, and now it's all
come together and developed into the woman that you are now. And obviously
with what you've been through, I can see that you do give a lot back to society as well with
helping these young people develop their own skills which I think's wonderful.
(Lynn) It's very important to give back to society, because
my near death experience, I know that I'm here for a greater purpose
(Graeme) Aha. (Lynn) and I live each day very grateful that I'm alive.
(Graeme) You know, you're obviously very influenced by your spiritualism
and your beliefs, (Lynn) Yes. (Graeme) and I would tend to think that would
be part of the creative path as well. But I mean your
works incredibly vivid. I mean it's, it's
complex as well. I mean it's very simple in its form, but it's very complex in
you put a lot of these together. The colour range is just amazing with what you do.
You've got a piece called Alpha, obviously the top, or the
number one. And then another piece called Birds,
which is just beautiful too. But I mean these all come about with the
techniques that you're using right now. (Lynn) Yes. (Graeme) You just sit down and you start to evolve it
and then (Lynn) Yeah. (Graeme) the picture talks to you in the end. So tell me more about
the singing coaching as well, because you and Dave really are
incredibly well recognised in this country for bringing young people
to X Factor, and The Voice, and obviously working with
Delta and... (Lynn) We consider this as a lovely little
family. Yeah, and I enjoy, enjoy teaching, I teach on the Gold
Coast, I'm the master coach there. But I love also
doing my art in my spare time, and obviously I've been a
professional artist for over twenty years, exhibited all around the world, and
very blessed that I've had these opportunities that have come my way.
(Graeme) Absolutely, your works dynamic to say the least.
You've got another piece called Burning Bush, which I think probably
has a relationship to Moses, from what I can imagine
so, but... (Lynn) That's a little bit like when I had my encounter,
(Graeme) Yeah. (Lynn) I came back and everyone said wow Lynn, you look younger.
I said yeah, I had an encounter with a burning bush.
(Graeme) Well there's another piece that you've got called Dividing Line, and that's got a
number of crucifixes in it as well. (Lynn) Yes, three. (Graeme) And funnily enough you've actually got
the shape of the Nautilus shell, or the spiral in
there which is the Golden Mean, (Lynn) Yeah, that's interesting. (Graeme) a natural part of nature
as well. Well part of the beauty about working with your husband
and all these talented people is you've got your gallery, and your studio
and all of these great
talented singers and musicians as well in the one location. But it's
sort of like a labyrinth, it's like a rabbit warren, there are rooms
everywhere where people are - they're all soundproof - where people are playing
the piano and they're learning how to sing. It's amazing.
(Lynn) It's as soundproof as you can make it, but it's interesting when you
hear when its all going together, it's music there, music there. (Graeme) And art
somewhere else. (Lynn) Art, I mean there's middle room painting
and enjoying it. (Graeme) The whole of the top floor is a gallery as well, where you've got
all your beautiful paintings, and people come in here and they
paint. (Lynn) Well how it eventuated Graeme was that I was getting
people from China, and other people that wanted to view
my work. And you know when you
exhibited at other places you're only given a week or two, and then
felt was
taken to my studio.
So I thought well I've got the space, why not
start an art gallery. And so It's been amazing,
cause now I can also have the opportunity of sometimes allowing
others to come and exhibit. Obviously it's mainly my
work. And yeah, so now I have a space
and my curator, she just sets up appointments and
so I've had a few people from China, and that who have come to
view my work. And also, it's been good for those that
actually can't come on the day for the exhibition and they want a
private viewing. Some people don't want a lot of people around,
especially in the industry, and I've had a lot of industry people come through,
and they are well known, and they don't want people in their faces so.
They want to look at my work and then you know, purchase there's a few
people that do have my work that are in the industry, yeah. (Graeme) But you
also work in watercolours as well. (Lynn) Yeah, I've worked in all mediums.
(Graeme) Yeah. (Lynn) I've found the oils were... yeah, it takes twelve months for
the oils to dry properly, and it can be
harmful with breathing sometimes. And so
I yeah, I'll use them if I have to and I'll be honest
oils is a great medium to work with, but I've
established a technique with the, with the acrylics, and I find
they're easier to work with, dry quicker, and then
because I, because I exhibit regularly I need my work to dry
you know, and I can't afford to wait twelve months for that to happen.
And a lot of my, the students actually can paint
themselves, they're actually artists. So if you can sing you can paint. It's because
it comes from that special spot that I talked about. Our technique
is emotion centred singing, so therefore when
you're painting as well, you've got to be just allow this brush to do
its work, and enjoy it while you're doing it.
You know, every piece that I've personally done I believe
they're quite different. I have started now doing limited
editions of my work. I have started only doing one to
thirty. I know down the track if I get into other galleries
and things like that I might, it might be one
to a hundred. But at the moment there's only two pieces that I'm
selling now which is Flight of Utopia and also, Into the Light,
so they can purchase that. (Graeme) And you've got
a piece here called Isaiah, which is a really powerful, striking
painting. What's the story behind that? (Lynn) Well I used to teach
Isaiah. Isaiah started with me here in this very studio, (Graeme) Yeah.
(Lynn) and I was very inspired by his background.
Graeme, he's aboriginal which you'll know, and
his father started telling me about his stories, and being managed by
Christine at the moment. And this young
boy was singing, he started singing off in church, so a lot of
also, what we teach is our emotion centred technique
is based, is gospel based. Like all the great singers of the world, Elvis
Presley, Whitney Huston, you name them, all started from the church, if
you all realise that. And he got
a prophesy or that he would become a
quite well known one day, and that God was going to use his voice.
So as I was meditating on what he shared with me,
that came out, and yeah, so
it's inspired by Isaiah. It has been exhibited
overseas as well. And
I bought it back because again, sometimes I exhibit and I don't
actually sell them, I just exhibit them, and Miami and a few other
places around the world. I've exhibited in Nix Gallery,
Rosen Gene Bro as well, and
there are some other opportunities that are coming up in Singapore and around the world.
But obviously Australia's my home, so I like to think that
York Street Gallery can be available to the world, and they can come and visit us.
(Graeme) Of course, they get singing lessons at the same time. (Lynn) Yeah, oh yes, definitely.
You don't have to be a singer to learn to sing by the way.
(Graeme) And I can see with most of this piece that you've been using an angle brush
to do what you do. (Lynn) I enjoy using the angle brush because you can do
you can paint in different ways, in different styles like
that way or that way. I've always used a very
fine brush, so that's why my paintings can take quite a while.
I have to walk away from them. So everything you see in the gallery
believe it or not is just with this, yeah.
Sometimes I might use a fan
one which we might use today, and
depending on what I'm feeling. (Graeme) As you were saying before, it's very difficult for
somebody that paints very much from within,
and you sort of get lost in the moment, to being stuck in front of a
camera trying to convey to people what you're actually doing.
(Lynn) Trying to listen to you too Graeme, it's interesting. (Graeme) Sorry about that. (Lynn) That's
okay. You're wonderful. (Graeme) My voice even annoys a lot of the public out there
too. (Lynn) No, I'm feeling very relaxed so I'm able to paint
in my secret place. (Graeme) And you've also got another piece here called, Epic Flight.
Now in a lot of your pictures you actually have the
meaning associated with the work as well. (Lynn) Yeah. (Graeme) In all of the
triumphs and of life it is still an epic flight.
We run the race with endurance full of hope and expectation.
(Lynn) Yeah. (Graeme) There's a lot of meaning in everything you do which is wonderful. (Lynn) I also
do it so, well everyone has statements to their work, and it gives
the viewer an understanding where the artist is coming from, and what
her means. I mean a lot of my work is always,
always related back to the human condition. We're all searching for meaning
in life so, whether we know it or not, and
those that know about my book, which I think Graeme will explain that you
can buy it online. I had an encounter with heaven,
and when I came back from that encounter I looked at life
so differently to what it is now - colour, people,
personalities. What am I here for? What am I doing? A lot of
people are wandering around and they actually don't know their purpose; they don't know
what they're here for. So we all need a
saviour. We all need to tap into another realm,
whether we believe it or not, cause there's more to life than just this.
(Graeme) Well in saying all of that I think the people
should really have a look at your book as well. It's been very influential
for a number of people that have read it. And they can go into your website at Lynn Jaanz art
gallery dot com. And you can go in there and see Lynn's gallery,
her exhibitions, just the amazing story about this lady and
what she has done with art and music over a
number of decades; its pretty incredible. So go in and have a look at what she's got
in there. Okay, well I just saw you pick up a fan brush. (Lynn) Love my
fan brush. (Graeme) You love your fan brushes do you? (Lynn) Yes. (Graeme) I can see a few fans in your work. (Lynn) Yes.
(Graeme) What are we going to do with that? (Lynn) Well it's interesting with a fan
brush so you can put all different colours, so you can see I got a very
messy palette here, but then that's the way I paint.
And I just use my brush to
(Graeme) That's pretty dynamic, yeah. (Lynn) start doing... and it
may not stay like that. I may go over it again
depending on what I'm feeling. (Graeme) Alright
Lynn, because this comes from within, very deep from within your secret place,
we're going to leave you alone for a little while, and then let
the camera's capture the movement of that brush and your expression and
see how this thing develops as we go along. (Lynn) That's awesome, I love that. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
(Lynn) So what's actually happened with my painting now I can, I'm feeling
each time you, each time Graeme throws a
question at me, my emotions change, so the colours going to change.
That's what paintings all about, like abstract, you just kind of
it's emotions centred, so you tend to go with what's ever
happening in your life at the time. (Graeme) Sure, sure. Yes,
it comes very much from the heart, (Lynn) Yep. (Graeme) that's the best way to describe
it. (Lynn) Yeah. (Graeme) You know, you've got a very powerful piece
as well called John 3:16.
(Lynn) Yes. (Graeme) He gave his only begotten son. (Lynn) Wow, Graeme, you
know that piece, yeah. (Graeme) A very powerful piece. (Lynn) Yeah, Well that actually won a
award and was exhibited Chapel on Chapel.
(Graeme) You've got another couple of pieces here. I'll just bring them up as well, because
the place that you are with this painting, I mean they're sort of starting to take on a similar
aspect. (Lynn) Yes. (Graeme) But you've got one called Purity,
which is just great. I mean they really are dynamic pieces. And then there's
also the piece Remnant. Remnant is man's search
for meaning and inner space. A really dynamic looking piece of work.
Well some of the ones that you've got in the gallery are you know, eight foot by
six foot. (Lynn) Yeah. (Graeme) They're quite large pieces so. (Lynn) Some of pieces
you're going up the stairs and some people - it's really funny
some students go up the stairs, and we had an exhibition
and they said we never saw that piece. It just shows you
that you know, people are on a, on a mission
and they don't stop to look. And as I was saying to Graeme
before, do we stop and look at the sky? Do we stop and look at the trees?
Do we stop to look at the colour? Do we stop and maybe observe a
person? Or do we stop and, so sometimes my philosophy
is that I want to... A very well known preacher,
always said, you need to remove yourself out of the
centre. When you remove yourself out of the centre,
then you react differently to other people. Cause a lot of people just suffer
a lot of deep root of rejection, and we live our life rejection, rejection,
someone's hurt me, someone's hurt me, and they don't realise that maybe that
could be us. So when we remove that piece of rejection out of
our heart, and remove ourselves then we're empty
in a way that we can respond to people in a better way. (Graeme) Sure. (Lynn) Yeah.
(Graeme) That makes a lot of sense. And as I said, I mean your work amazes
me. But there's one called the Mysterious Tangle.
It's a tangle and it's mysterious. (Lynn) This is a bit of a mysterious tangle too.
This piece is becoming a very mysterious tangle.
I'm just trying to figure out, yes. (Graeme) It's the idea. I mean part of
Colour In Your Life is going through the individual journey of each artist.
(Lynn) Yeah. (Graeme) You know, it's sort of what brought you to where you where.
(Lynn) And so I've learn't from you know, my upbringing that
really at the end of the day, we're not living for ourselves. We
just need to know that we're here for a bigger purpose, and we need
to go out there and find, find out what it is.
I'm blessed to be able to paint, and sing, and teach, and
I love my job. It's not a job - I enjoy it. (Graeme) Yeah.
(Graeme) Absolutely. (Lynn) So I probably won't get this finished today.
I want to take it home and give myself some time
and just see what needs to be finished cause
Graeme, you've been talking to me. (Graeme) Sorry about that. (Lynn) I think I've got all my
emotions in this painting. So yeah, I'd
love to do that. (Graeme) Okay, that's a great idea. But because of the beauty of
editing, you can see the finished piece now. It's really, really
well done, (Lynn) Thank you, Graeme. (Lynn) and I think that you have your emotions and your intentions well
and truly in the right place for the rest of the world. (Lynn) Thank you, Graeme, and you too. (Graeme) So thanks so much for having us in
here.
(Graeme) Alright folks, from the York Street Gallery in Melbourne, and the Jaanz
International Singing Academy as well, we had a great day here.
Beautiful facilities and so well set up for art, and obviously teaching these amazing
young talented people in Australia. Lynn, fantastic. (Lynn) Fantastic
(Graeme) Thank you for a great day, (Lynn) Thank you so much. (Graeme) we really had a lovely time with you. (Lynn) Thank you. (Graeme) Very, very
spiritual lady, very well meaning towards life and everybody else around her. It was
a real, real pleasure to have you here. (Lynn) Thank you, Graeme. (Graeme) Also, Lynn's
book, A Journey from Heaven to Healing. If you'd like to go
into Lynn's website, it's Lynn Jaanz art gallery
dot com, you'll be able to go in there and see the book. It's actually a beautiful book,
really well written as well. So pop in there, and then go and see some of Lynn's work,
it's really quite amazing. Very, very talented woman, abstract colourist.
(Lynn) Impressionist, abstract. (Graeme) Impressionist as well? Okay. (Lynn) Yes,
(Graeme) Okay, we can do that. (Lynn) very much so. (Graeme) But we're down in Melbourne for another week.
A great place to be; we love the people down here as well. Come and see us at colour in your life
dot com dot au, and our Facebook page, and subscribe on our YouTube site
as well. We've got hundreds of thousands of people in there these days. It's amazing. But
we're going to head out of here, and until we see you guys again - remember: make sure you put some singing
and some colour in your life. We'll see you next time. Bye now guys. (Lynn) Bye. (Graeme) Bye.
Bye.
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