Loren Snyk Blends Fine Art, Fashion and Cybersecurity in Powerful Mixed Media Work
Loren Snyk is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative path weaves through the worlds of haute couture, cybersecurity and fine art. With early roots in fashion modeling and design—working alongside luxury giants like Chanel and Hermès, Snyk’s firsthand exposure to the pressures and aesthetics of the industry sparked a deeper inquiry into perception.
Her practice evolved behind the lens and beyond the runway, as she began creating evocative photographic and mixed-media work exploring psychological depth and abstraction. A dramatic career shift led her into cybersecurity, where she now serves as a Cloud Security Director—an experience that continues to inform her work with themes of information, concealment, and control. Blending a minimalist black-and-white aesthetic with layered techniques using oil, cold wax, and photography on wood panels, Snyk's art questions the visible and the invisible—beauty and façade, data and distortion.
Q: Your career spans fashion, photography and cybersecurity. How do these seemingly opposite worlds influence one another in your creative process? Please tell us a little about this journey.
Fashion and photography naturally complemented each other in my early career—both are visual languages rooted in instinct, composition, and storytelling. Cybersecurity brought in a very different mindset: one grounded in analysis, strategy, and the discipline to refine or completely rethink solutions until they’re right.
That discipline began to shape how I approach art. Where I once used art as a release—something spontaneous and intuitive—I now bring a more intentional, focused process. Cybersecurity taught me the value of persistence and precision, and those habits have transformed how I create. What once felt like separate worlds are now deeply interconnected, each strengthening the other in unexpected ways.
Q: Your photography has a distinct aesthetic. What draws you to this visual language, and how does it inform your mixed-media and painting work?
I see photography not just as documentation, but as a way to interpret and convey a deeper message through visual storytelling, and that same approach informs all of my work. I want each piece to offer a perspective that resonates beyond the surface. Early on, my photography reflected my focus on haute couture, which naturally carried into my mixed media pieces. Now, as my connection to subject and message deepens, my work is shifting toward emotional resonance over aesthetic. That evolution continues to shape every medium I engage with.
Q: What challenges have you encountered working at the intersection of art and technology?
The biggest challenge is time—specifically, having enough of it to fully integrate the lessons from one field into the other. Art brings clarity and impact to cybersecurity communication, just as cybersecurity sharpens my approach to art through strategy and discipline. But weaving those insights together thoughtfully takes more time than I often have.
Q: What are your greatest inspirations and influences?
I’m deeply inspired by unraveling the strategy behind great works—understanding how the masters thought, designed, and created. Many of my influences are photographers, but artists and musicians have also shaped my perspective. Other strong sources of inspiration include nature in its pure, unfiltered form as well as humanity’s inner struggles and emotional complexity. Capturing those perspectives and layers feels essential to building empathy and connection through art.
Q: What’s next for you?
I work within a rotating set of processes and styles to keep my perspective fresh and create space for continuous evolution. I often blend elements from one approach into another, extending techniques that work well in one medium into a new expression in another.
Next in rotation (and currently underway) is a new direction in my mixed media practice. I’m combining methods from several of my styles: using photography as a full base layer, strategically incorporating oil paint to support the narrative, and finishing with layers of cold wax infused with gold flecks to build depth and texture. This new series, Is Not Gold, is a conceptual twist on the phrase “All that glitters is not gold,” exploring the contrast between surface allure and deeper emotional truth.
