Lyn Hovey
Lyn Hovey Studio, Inc
1476 River Street
Hyde Park, MA 02136
(617) 333-9445
(617) 333-9448 fax
bio
Lyn Hovey, stained glass artist and president of Lyn Hovey Studio, Inc., received his early training at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and served as an apprentice under Douglas Phillips, of the Phillips Studio of Cleveland, and under Rudolph Sandon, of the Sandon Studio, also of Cleveland.
Lyn moved to Boston in 1965, and joined the Wilbur Herbert Burnham Studio as a glass painter, and remained with them for four years. After a year of teaching art at the University of Maine in Fort Kent in 1969, he returned to Massachusetts and established his own stained glass studio in 1972 in Cambridge, moving –in 1991- to the Boston waterfront adjacent to the Boston Design Center.
In May 2004, Lyn moved the studio to the Boston neighborhood of Hyde Park and opened a small satellite studio in Antigua, Guatemala. Over the three decades of its existence, the Lyn Hovey Studio has become one of America's foremost stained glass studios specializing in both new commissions and historic restorations. In 1989, Lyn was chosen to be one of only nine American stained glass artists to show in the II International Salon-du-Vitrail stained glass exposition in Chartres, France.
Lyn's work can be found in homes, churches, synagogues, offices, and public buildings around the world. However, Boston's inner city, where Lyn makes his home, holds a special fascination for him. In 1996, Lyn began a series of drawings, paintings and prints entitled Faces of My Neighborhood, which shows positive images of inner city people at work, at play, and at worship. Lyn is also active in many neighborhood, church and education support efforts.
Lyn has a deep interest in Bible Study as well as Comparative Religion. He has worked in the widest range of religious expression, both in stained glass and other mediums. Examples of his religious work can be found throughout the United States, as well as overseas.
In the last decade there has been a growing interest in Lyn’s work and the studio’s work. Museums, libraries, art organizations, historic preservation groups, and galleries have called upon him and the studio to show works and give lectures covering a broad spectrum of art and restoration topics.