Profile

'We fell in love with the details and the beautiful art'

Brenda Ortiz-Gomez
​Collector
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'My work fulfils a need to share my view of nature at it's most disarming.'  LK
                                                                                                     
Why?

I am drawn to the ephemeral beauty of flowers and amazed by their strength hidden behind such delicate blooms. This beauty hides their importance in our world.

When I paint flowers or the landscape I depict them not as a figurative work but the essence of my emotional connection with them. I don't paint what I see, I paint what I feel the essence of a place, memories, colours and energy.

Process

My method is intense observation, mental notes and maybe some reference photography or sketches which I then use in my studio in Frome. I try not to consciously think while I paint. I choose a palette of colour and gradually a painting emerges and makes sense to me. This maybe over a few hours, days or even months. Often a painting emerges unexpectedly, I might find myself painting a scene reminiscent of a holiday in Cornwall. This synchronicity is an exciting element of my work. To be able to play with colour, layering painting over painting and allowing past passages of pigment to creep into the final piece. 

Experience

Lynn Keddie has spent the last ten years learning and refining her process with eminent artists at The St Ives School of painting, The West of England Royal Academy in Bristol, Heatherly Art School and The Mall Galleries in London. Her work is held in private collections in the UK and the USA and she exhibits regularly at art fairs across the country, as well as hosting painting workshops from her studio in Frome.
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Lynn has been a professional photographer of plants, gardens and those that work in them for over 20 years.

Lynn’s work can be found in private collections in UK, Europe, US and Canada.

​Member of the Society of Scottish Artists

EDUCATION
​Nick Moore - RWA Drawing School 2020
​Liz Hough - St Ives School of painting  2020
Francesca Berlingieri Maxwell - RWA Drawing School 2019
Esmé Clutterbuck - RWA Drawing School 2018
Clare Haward - Dulwich Art Group 2017
Paul Gildea NEAC - Mall Galleries 2017
Louise Balaam RWA NEAC - New School of Painting 2016
Sarah Spencer RAS NEAC 2016
Paul Newland NEAC RWS - Heatherly School of Art  2016
Alice Mumford RWA - St Ives School of Painting 2011
Exhibitions

2021
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries
Roy's Art Fair, The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
The Society of Women Artists - 2021 online exhibition
69th Bruton Art Society Members Exhibition

2020
​ACE gallery, Somerton
68th Bruton Art Society Virtual Open Exhibition August
Creates Gallery Open Exhibition
Bath Online art exhibition- supporting Children's Hospice SW by Art Gallery SW

2019
The Silk Mill Collective Exhibition December
The Windsor Contemporary Art Fair, November 
Frome Open Studios, Studio July
​ACE gallery, Somerton
Frome Art Fair, April
Roy's Peoples Art Fair, April
Bath Art Fair March

2018
'Collective', Swindon museum and Art Gallery December
'The London Ultra' @ The Barge House, London SE1. Hosted by the Free Painters and Sculptors, November
Windsor Contemporary Art Fair, November 
The Other Art Fair, Bristol July
Frome Open Studios, The Silk Mill, July
The Bath Art Fair, May
The Talented Art Fair, London. March

2017
The Other Art Fair, Arnolfini, Bristol September
'Wildlings' joint exhibition, Oxford House Gallery, London

2005
'Private Places' group photography exhibition, The Geffrye Museum, London
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