Ballarat-based mature artist, Lynne is taking a chance and realizing her potential, and her abilities to become a practicing artist. Works have been completed that explore portraiture through a range of media on board, canvas and jigsaws using stud adhesive, acrylic paint, marker pens and oil pastels. New works explore the potential of acrylic as a way of expressing line.
Artist’s Statement of Purpose:
In my practice of Art I am perpetually striving for new ways of seeing or approaching a subject and experimenting to find ways of translating the act of seeing onto the page, canvas or board. A line, a brushstroke, the sculptural hand - the mark-making that finds its way onto the page, is an act of trust, in the process of drawing painting and sculpting. It is the coordination of eye, hand and heart and, just as importantly, the incorporation of experience and intuition into any body of work.
It is almost a way of un-thinking, of forgetting, of turning off that part of your being that gives rise to doubt and fear, instead giving into the feeling of comfort, empathy and the forgiving aspects of your being; non-judgemental and non-demanding. My intention is to achieve this state of clarity.
It is a state of pure trust, of feeling a wholeness of being. It is the condition we know intuitively but in reality fight against: a hyper sensitive liminal state where the act of creating and of distilling ideas can happen spontaneously. The harder I try to find this state the more I tighten the line and must have faith in my insight to recapture it. The inner intimacy is revealed if you trust your own way of seeing. It is as simple and difficult as that.
There are as many ways to write about the line as there are as lines that can be drawn. I would like to think that the drawn lines present in my body of work speak to you like the written word. I draw on a deep well of instinct, knowledge, perception, intuition, tactile sensations, observation, and trust in my hypersensitive myopic eye that has been with me for the vast majority of my life - that is my reality. A complex web of desire, dreams, memory and ineffable sensations feed into this process that we conflate as experience.
Artist’s Statement of Purpose:
In my practice of Art I am perpetually striving for new ways of seeing or approaching a subject and experimenting to find ways of translating the act of seeing onto the page, canvas or board. A line, a brushstroke, the sculptural hand - the mark-making that finds its way onto the page, is an act of trust, in the process of drawing painting and sculpting. It is the coordination of eye, hand and heart and, just as importantly, the incorporation of experience and intuition into any body of work.
It is almost a way of un-thinking, of forgetting, of turning off that part of your being that gives rise to doubt and fear, instead giving into the feeling of comfort, empathy and the forgiving aspects of your being; non-judgemental and non-demanding. My intention is to achieve this state of clarity.
It is a state of pure trust, of feeling a wholeness of being. It is the condition we know intuitively but in reality fight against: a hyper sensitive liminal state where the act of creating and of distilling ideas can happen spontaneously. The harder I try to find this state the more I tighten the line and must have faith in my insight to recapture it. The inner intimacy is revealed if you trust your own way of seeing. It is as simple and difficult as that.
There are as many ways to write about the line as there are as lines that can be drawn. I would like to think that the drawn lines present in my body of work speak to you like the written word. I draw on a deep well of instinct, knowledge, perception, intuition, tactile sensations, observation, and trust in my hypersensitive myopic eye that has been with me for the vast majority of my life - that is my reality. A complex web of desire, dreams, memory and ineffable sensations feed into this process that we conflate as experience.