LYNN KEDDIE

Have you ever wondered what thoughts flicker through the mind of an artist?
Or imagined how to start a painting?
Or to know when it's finished!
What tools to use and even what colours to choose?

Let me show you in this video.

I started with a painting that I didn't like. If I don't like a painting whether it's good or bad it never gets to see the light of day. I have to like a painting to show it.

I had one in my studio, it was catching the corner of my eye and every time it did, I thought, you know we're not friends, I don't like you.

So the other day, I started to paint over it, with my hand, no brushes and just a vague thought of some flowers on the kitchen table. Watch how the story unfolds...

Watch a Painting come to Life

Have you ever wondered how a painting comes to life? 

I get asked this all the time with questions like...

• Where do you start?
• How do you get your inspiration?
• How do you know when it's finished?​

Last Spring I was having an exhibition in an old barn in the heart of Wiltshire. It was beautiful, in the courtyard there was an ancient Walnut tree. As the sun began to warm the air we watched the leaves unfurl a beautiful olive, bronze colour. Swallows swooped through branches and darted into nooks in the walls of the barn. Bluebells filled the air with their rich scent and blossom fluttered around us. It was heavenly. When I returned to my studio I painted this piece, you can watch the video here...

And if you liked this you might like to watch this...

I often get asked how I start a painting. These days I paint from my feelings, experiences and soul. But it took a while to get here. 

There are really no right or wrong ways to start. I think you should try anything and see if you enjoy it. Painting should always be enjoyable.

Back in 2014 I painted a body of work under the title Wildlings. It was the idea of a friend of mine, Paul Debois, a photographer who photographed a series of wildlings. Wildlings are plants, growing wild in an unexpected place.

Paul asked me if I could paint from his photographs and so I did. I called this painting 'Wild Thing'. And here is the video that Paul shot of me painting it.