Lynette Cook

Courtesy of the artist and ARC.

First Place Landscape in the 17th International ARC Salon® online exhibition;

17th & 18th International ARC Salon® Exhibition at Sotheby's New York, July 17-27, 2026.

Art Renewal Center, International Realism: 17th & 18th International ARC Salons (Woodbridge, UK: ACC Art Books Ltd, 2026), p. 167, illustrated.

“When I first noticed this San Francisco building, I was struck by the beauty of its architecture and the abstract cast shadow of the fire escape. The morning sun transformed the white facade into a pastel panoply of warm tones paired with cool shadows that shifted from gray to purple.

To me, this piece is largely about the natural world. This scene could never exist without the Sun; thus, it is a symbiotic pairing of human creation with Nature. To point the viewer toward this fact, I included the tree silhouettes and moon through the windows as well as the shadows of ravens soaring by, casting their shadows upon the building's surface. This image is a fleeting moment in time, for the light and shadows will move and change as the afternoon arises, eventually disappearing when the sun sets or the fog rolls in.” – Lynette Cook