'Within Sight and Memory'

‘Within Sight and Memory’

£3,750.00

‘Within Sight and Memory’

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‘Within Sight and Memory’

Original Oil on Deep Framed Canvas

Collect from gallery £3,750

Collect from gallery

100 x 120 cm

Available in our Autumn Exhibition ‘When Soft was the Sun’ opening on August 31st 2024

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“This painting was inspired by being up on the  Epynt doing some soil sampling with Juliet the Agronomist at a place now know as Farm no 4. The whole area of Mynydd Epynt was controversially taken over by the Army in 1940 and used for training, the Army evicted all the communities that had been there for centuries. It’s still in use by them today. It’s really beautiful place  and I think a lot of it is restricted access. The area this painting is inspired by it right on the edge, near Tirabad, on the edge of the Crychan Forest which is accessible. I was trying to get across in this painting was the dramatic shape of the hills , the steep drops and the absolute silence of the place. The trees are in reality all conifers but they’re not as nice as deciduous ones so I’ve replaced them with lots of oaks ! 
It really doesn’t look like the area but there’s a few features that are based on reality ! I felt it needed a really large canvas to try and get across the sheer size of the landscape in relation to people in it.”

Lynda was born in Sunderland in 1970, settling in Monmouth in the early 1980’s, where she has lived ever since. She studied Art Foundation at Newport College of Art & Design, followed by a degree in Visual Art at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

She worked for a number of years in a non art related business, always painting in her spare time. In 2007 she finally gave up her day job and started painting full time.

Her canvases are mostly depictions of landscapes in the Monmouth area – the final image often bears little relation to the original subject but all have a common starting point – the memory of a place she knows well. 

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