Lynn Sanders

Lynn Sanders, a multi-award-winning Chicago-area photographer, began her career in the 60's as a photo retouch artist and hand-colorist of black and white prints. In an effort to create the feeling she admired in the work of the old world masters, Lynn pioneered an innovative mixed media technique drawing from an ancient oil-glazing process once used to augment religious iconography. Her efforts resulted in a unique procedure applying layer upon layer of oil and lacquer to a photograph, creating a work highly luminous and suggestive of the style seen in masterpieces of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood during the late 1800's. These Victorian painters emulated the ideals of Renaissance art using rich depth, realistic colors, and the vast resources of historic romance synonymous with that period in history. Lynn and her partner, Cherif Fortin, introduced their artwork to the romance publishing industry, and the rest, as they say, is history. A natural sequence of events followed, culminating in the huge acclaim they enjoy today for the "old world charm" of their book cover illustrations and more recently, their first illustrated romance novella.