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Lynda Troutt Murphy
Artist In Residency 2007-2016
Virginia
Commission for the Arts
Lynda Troutt Murphy
is a native of Roanoke, Virginia. From 1973 to 1998 Lynda
Murphy was a professional animal trainer/breeder and owned/managed a large
shooting preserve in Oklahoma. Her expertise was training and breeding sporting
breeds in Oklahoma and Wisconsin. During her training years she carried a camera
in the field instead of a gun and has a huge collection of sporting dog fine
art.
Lynda attended the University of
Central Oklahoma and Virginia Tech with a focus in Journalism. She graduated
from Mary Baldwin College with a degree in Business Management. After she
graduated from Mary Baldwin College she did a four year independent study in
fine art photography under the supervision of Martin (Marty) Church and Ellen Munger.
She is a professional
photographer and owns Murphy’s, Inc., an e-commerce business for photography. Her specialty is black and white gelatin silver prints
and most recently Giclée prints. She was inspired at an early age by her
grandfather who was a photographer in WWI & WWII. As a child she spent time in
the dark room with him and loved to see the images come to life in the
chemistry.
Lynda was on the Artist
Roster with the Virginia Commission for the Arts in the Artist in Residency
Program from 2009 to 2016.
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