Her biggest influences are contemporary painters like Woody Gwyn (“for the starkness of his landscapes and the evocative quality of them”) and Carol Mothner (“for her sensitive interiors”). Shinn also commends Frank Relle for the colorful, evocative quality of his photography of old buildings in New Orleans.
Shinn was born in Denver, CO, in 1948 to an architectural engineer father and homemaker mother. She decided to become an artist back in the third grade and eventually earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Then she got married, had kids, and relocated numerous times with her husband, who was in the U.S. Air Force Academy Band and later taught music composition at Arizona State University. Shinn, who’d been weaving tapestries, went back to school and earned a master’s degree in fine arts at ASU in 1988, focusing on fiber arts and developing her current technique.
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