Wynn stored those memories in his mind while he initially took a traditional employment path in order to support his family.  Over and over his mind would return to his grandfather’s sculpture, to images related to growing up on a farm.

Initially feeding his “art hunger” by enrolling in a number of classes, almost immediately Wynn began selling his very unusual sculptures.  His “regular employment” a thing of the past, Wynn has enjoyed a successful career as a sculptor for the past six years. 

According to free lance writer Suzanne Deats, “Allen Wynn’s archetypal sculptures call up personal associations from all who see them.  These figures may represent any kind of person, anywhere in the world, because the artist has freed them from extraneous detail and has stated their meaning in the simplest terms.  Allen Wynn has taken his impressions from earliest childhood memories through very recent experience and has interpreted them in a universal language.”

She continues: “Allen Wynn’s tough, graceful sculptures represent the inner beings of working people he has known all his life.  They are usually women, sometimes accompanied by a child whose role is that of a clear-eyed observer.  Occasionally he will add a bird or a fish, not as an overt symbol but as a simple evocation of rural existence.  The figures are reserved yet accessible, their train of thought reinforced by gestures as simple as the turn of a head or the position on an arm.  Their emotions are contained within themselves.”