Lynne E Windsor: Artist Statement

Artist's Statement

Quiet ethereal moments, glowing light, shimmering reflections and memories of misty mysterious shapes are the source of my inspiration. Those moments which most captivate me are the drama of the light as the sun is rising, the sun as it casts it's long dark shadows at the end of the day, and the penumbra's lingering glow.

Near Fanjeaux, France, 2002

The twenty-two years that I lived in London created a surface of cosmopolitanism underlain by nature's mulch from my earlier years in the country. My strength and nutrients arrive from the earth. My paintings are inspired by real places and memories.

Photos, sketches, notes and memory help me recapture what might have been a fleeting inspiration. Using a limited palette, on Baltic birch panels and linen, I work in layers of opaque paint and glazes. I am fascinated by the subtleties in colour created by glazes. Glazes, light beams for my imagination. I constantly strive for new modes of expressing the textures of my imagination. The immediacy of monotypes and encaustics have inspired me to pare down to the bare bones, clarifying the vital elements which voice the joy that I find in the beauty of the land and through the day's transitional moments.

Painting is my survival kit, the essence of my living.

Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004