land and sea
Hills, plains, mountains, rivers, parks, meadows, fields, sea, estuaries, waterfalls, pools, harbours, canals, bays, lakes, puddles, rain...
'Lynn's paintings have caught the space, light and movement'
Hilary Dunn artist
Hilary Dunn artist
I spend a lot of time outside in my home county of Somerset and before, Wiltshire. A stunningly beautiful part of our country with a vast, ever-changing sky, changeable weather, fields, rivers, coastline, planes and woodland. It is this energy, these colours this sense of place that I try to capture.
I paint in oils, I love the colours, their buttery consistency, and the smell. I love moving it around on a canvas, often without a plan, just a collection of carefully chosen colours on my palette to start and a memory of a place: a mood, a Winter sky, glowing seed-heads drifting across a meadow on a gloomy day, colours of fields near and far. I paint, intuitively laying down colours, making marks to explain the essence of a place.
I paint in oils, I love the colours, their buttery consistency, and the smell. I love moving it around on a canvas, often without a plan, just a collection of carefully chosen colours on my palette to start and a memory of a place: a mood, a Winter sky, glowing seed-heads drifting across a meadow on a gloomy day, colours of fields near and far. I paint, intuitively laying down colours, making marks to explain the essence of a place.
The corn buntings
oil on canvas 30 x 30cm |
Seeds of gold and diamond drops
Oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm This painting was shortlisted by the Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition 2019 (RWA) |
|
|
|
Bracken at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall
oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm |
Harvest
Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm |
|
|
|
A field of memories
Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm |
Autumn colours
Oil on canvas board 40 x 30 cm framed |
Everybody feels the wind
oil on canvas 40 x 40cm |
A storm in summer
Oil on canvas board 53 x 43 cm framed |
|
|
|
Booby's Bay, Cornwall
54 x 54 cm framed Oil on canvas 'Miles and miles of sea crashing into land on an achingly beautiful day' One of my favourite coastlines is North Cornwall in winter. It is empty of sunbathing holiday-makers. Just acres and acres of sand, sea and sky. The wind is fresh and blows away your cobwebs, clears your head and all at once you feel great! |
Spring Tide at Constantine Bay
Oil on canvas 44 x 44 cm framed |
Rock pools
Oil on canvas SOLD |
The ocean and me
Oil on canvas 34 x 34 cm framed |
Untitled
This is a painting that I was commissioned to paint by Jamie Butterworth who designed a Gold medal willing garden at RHS Chatsworth for Wedgwood in June 2019 Commission |
Reflection
54 x 54 cm Oil on canvas framed |
Porthmeor, Cornwall
65 x 55 cm Oil on canvas, framed SOLD 'I wondered if the sea would crash into us and wash us away.' |
By the sea
44 x 44 cm Oil on canvas framed |
Gurnard's Head, Cornwall
Exhibited at Swindon Museum & Art Gallery "Collective" 11 December - 5 Jan 2019 oil on canvas 44 x 44 cm framed SOLD 'The land was on fire with golden, and russet bracken stretching for miles' |
September light
Exhibited at The LONDON ULTRA with the Free Painters and Sculptors Group @ Bargehouse Gallery - Oxo Tower Wharf 6-9 December Oil on canvas 44 x 44 cm framed 'Walking in winter, drinking in the colours of Earth' |
Constantine Bay
SOLD Exhibited at Swindon Museum & Art Gallery "Collective" 11 December - 5 Jan 2019 44 x 44 cm framed 'It was so peaceful, it was as if time stood still' |
Watching the storm
Exhibited at The LONDON ULTRA with the Free Painters and Sculptors Group @ Bargehouse Gallery - Oxo Tower Wharf 6-9 December Oil on canvas 44 x 44 cm framed 'Caught or nearly, running towards the car to escape a storm at The White Horse.' |
Today is good
Oil on canvas, framed 50 x 50 cm SOLD 'Standing, gazing, gazing into the distance. Golden grass, crisped by the summers sun and autumns chill' |
Moody blues
Oil on canvas 76 x 76 cm framed 'Always a mystery. Wondering about ancient times, rituals, life up on Cley Hill time drifting towards us' |
|
|
|
September mornings
Oil on canvas 65 x 65 cm framed Memories of places visited. Laden with atmosphere, rivers rushing to the sea carrying messages to the world' |
The Somerset Levels near Axbridge
Oil on canvas 65 x 65 cm Available to buy at ACE ARTS Somerton, Somerset |
Sea mist
Oil on board 63 x 67 cm framed |
Into the sun. Constantine Bay
Cornwall Oil on board SOLD 'My favourite beach. Best in winter when the sun is low, the sea is playful and the air is crackling' |
At the end of the road
Acrylic on board 50 x 50 cm |
Waiting for the storm
Oil on board 40 x 30 cm |
Wave
Oil on canvas 34 x 34 cm framed |
Counting waves
Oil on canvas 54 x 54 cm framed |
Rodden meadow
Oil on canvas, framed 76 x 76 cm SOLD 'Too lovely to share, so I painted it instead, and sold it to a lovely man who said that it sung to his heart. It sings to mine every time I wander there.' |
Winter's last gasp
Oil on canvas, framed 34 x 34 cm SOLD |
|
|
|
Tern, tern, tern
2015 Oil on board, framed SOLD |
Headland
Oil on board 30 x 20 cm framed SOLD |
Murmur's of Summer
oil on canvas framed 30 x 30 cm SOLD |
|
Milk Hill
Oil and wax on canvas 50 x 50 cm SOLD |
Bruma
Oil and wax on canvas board 44 x 34 cm framed |
Crystal Palace Park
18 x 24 cm Oil on canvas |
A field in the Weald
Oil on canvas 18 x 24cm |
If only they could talk
26 x 31 cm Oil on board |
Sunday sun
Oil on canvas 34 x 29 cm |
Marsh mellow
Oil on board 30 x 20 cm framed SOLD |
Winter jewels
Oil on canvas board 60 x 50 cm SOLD |
|
|
|
Waiting for the festival
Oil on canvas 18 x 24 cm 2017 SOLD |
The City from Brockwell Park, London
Oil on canvas board 30 x 30 cm SOLD |
The long road to the North
Oil on paper SOLD |
The crows wheeled in the sky
Oil on paper 15 x 24 cm SOLD |