About the Artist

Lynn Waelde is a New Orleans native who has practiced photography and meditation for almost her entire life. Following training in photography and photographic printmaking during college, Lynn applied for several jobs as a photographer but was only hired once, to make glass plates from telescope images in an astronomy lab. Fortunately, she kept her day job and is now a Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department at Palo Alto University and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is a widely published psychology researcher who specializes in treating trauma using mindfulness and meditation.

Lynn Waelde has exhibited her photographs throughout the United States. Two of her photographs (South Boulder Creek I and II) have been chosen for permanent display in the new Imig Music Building of the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her photograph, South Boulder Creek II, was chosen by Guilford Press as cover art for her 2022 book, Mindfulness and Meditation in Trauma Treatment.

Exhibitions

2024-2024: City Park Lily and Jacaranda Remains were exhibited and sold at the 102nd Anniversary Exhibition and Fundraiser, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. Also exhibited were Nymphaea Plena, Secrets of Palm, Sky Pond, South Boulder Creek II, and The Light Above. 

2023: Visio I and Visio II were exhibited in “A Journey into Abstraction” by the Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. 

2023: Jacaranda Remains and Lily Awaiting were exhibited in “Art of the Flower 2023 Exhibition in memory of Donald C. Meyer” by the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA 

2022: Summer Rain was exhibited in “Collective Awakenings” by the Chicago Alliance for Visual Artists, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL 

2022: South Boulder Creek II has been chosen by The Guilford Press as cover art for Dr. Waelde’s book, Mindfulness and Meditation in Trauma Treatment: The Inner Resources for Stress Program

2021: Sky Pond was exhibited in "Glimpses of Illumination" at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts., Healdsburg, CA

2021: Visio II and Jacaranda Remains were exhibited at “A Moment of Zen” by the Chicago Alliance for Visual Artists, at the North Shore Art League, Winnetka, IL  

2021: Jacaranda Remains was exhibited and sold at “The Anthropocene Epiphany: Art and Climate Change” at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2019: Visio I and II were exhibited at the ACF Art Show, sponsored by the Stanford University Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

Collections

2021: South Boulder Creek I and II were installed for permanent exhibition in the new Imig Music Building of the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder 

2021: Jacaranda Remains entered the private collection of Scott and Signe Cook in San Gregorio, CA