Tim Lynn is paralyzed from the shoulders down.  More than two decades ago he was a student hanging out with his college friends on a hot summer day.  He dove into a pool and broke his neck.  Tim has spent half his life in a wheelchair.  Despite his disability, and the fact that he's mostly colorblind, he's a talented painter whose large canvases have hung in several San Francisco Bay Area galleries.  He credits his artist parents and Joan Brown, family friend and one of the leaders of the Bay Area figurative movement, for setting him on his path.  He painted with Brown in her studio for two years before entering the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an MFA.  In this radio piece Tim talks about the struggles and rewards of making art as a significantly disabled person, from his specially adapted equipment to the health and emotional issues that inevitably come with chronic disability. 

Tim Lynn is paralyzed from the shoulders down.  More than two decades ago he was a student hanging out with his college friends on a hot summer day.  He dove into a pool and broke his neck.  Tim has spent half his life in a wheelchair.  Despite his disability, and the fact that he's mostly colorblind, he's a talented painter whose large canvases have hung in several San Francisco Bay Area galleries.  He credits his artist parents and Joan Brown, family friend and one of the leaders of the Bay Area figurative movement, for setting him on his path.  He painted with Brown in her studio for two years before entering the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an MFA.  In this radio piece Tim talks about the struggles and rewards of making art as a significantly disabled person, from his specially adapted equipment to the health and emotional issues that inevitably come with chronic disability.