Lena ThynellI am a Swedish native who moved to the USA six years ago. I began watercolor painting about twenty years ago at Gerlesborg Art School in Sweden. At this art school, I was educated by many of the very best Swedish watercolor artists. This education has intensified after moving to the USA five years ago. I live in Central Pennsylvania, where I am surrounded by beautiful farms and farmland. Here you find beautiful hills and valleys, oak forests and lime-stone fed spring creeks. I love to paint old barns that are surrounded by a rural landscape. I also like to paint dilapidated farm houses and sheds. Fishermen's sheds, boats and harbors attract me as well. Being outdoors, painting is very inspiring and I love it. It's a challenge to paint outdoors while being exposed to wind, sun, rain and even snow. When I paint, I aim to express a feeling or a mood of the object. Affiliations Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Signature Status, PWS in 2015 Philadelphia Watercolor Society Signature Status in 2016. Member of Northwest Watercolor Society, Baltimore Watercolor Society and American Watercolor Society Farmland Preservation Artists of Central Pennsylvania Shows and Awards Honorary Award at Pennsylvania Watercolor Society's 35th Annual International Juried Exhibition in 2014.Exhibitions-USA2017 Finger Lakes Plein Air Competition, NY2017 Northwest Watercolor Society 77th Annual International Open Exhibition 2017 Schlow Library State College, PA, Solo Exhibition 2016 Philadephia Watercolor Society's 116th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper 2016 Harford Plein Air Competition, MD 2015 Bellefonte Art Museum of Central PA, Landscapes of Central Pennsylvania2015 Images 2015. Juried Gallery Exhibition of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.2015 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society 36th International Juried Exhibition 2015 Philadelphia Watercolor Society 115th Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper 2015 Pittsburgh Watercolor Society Aqueous Open 69th Annual International Exhibition 2014 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society 35th Annual International Juried Exhibition 2012, 2013 Art Alliance of Central PA Juried Show Exhibitions-Sweden 2008 Osterakers Varsalong, Stadshuset Lidkoping 2007 Vanermuseet Lidkoping, Hostsalongen Edsviks Konsthall, Galleri Femman Lidkoping 2005-2006 Stockholms Konstsalong Hagaparken