Qahira Lynn was born in Portland, Oregon, USA, and never learned how to color inside the lines literally or metaphorically.

She attended art school, studied painting in college, and art therapy in graduate school, but  feels that she has spent her time since then attempting to unlearn whatever it was they were trying to teach. Her feeling is that she is self-taught -- she believes that she never did
catch on to whatever it was she was supposed to catch on to. She lives in a tiny  village on the Oregon coast and makes paintings. She does not call what she does art, and really hasn't the slightest idea what"art" is -- she just does what she does...

If she is an artist at all, Qahira Lynn is a visionary spiritual artist, a mystic muralist of the dreamtime.

With her images, she attempts to evoke magic…spiraling and emerging through the sacredsymbology of the divine source, the great mother, the One.

She has a passion for reaching into essence to what is deeper than words, making picturesof what is beneath the surface, behind the veil, healing what arises from the depths of the world soul, activating the powers of intention, creating magic and revealing
transcendence.

She feels that the role of the "artist" in this time is to be a shaman in the very deepest sense of that word, working to dispel commonly held illusions and delusions  - perhaps through the creation of"illusions" and to help bring about a true healing to her/his culture: to nurture and feed the world soul.