Lynn Woods
Artist’s Statement by Lynn Woods
Painting a still life, interior, landscape, or street scene plein air, working from photos, or more abstractly using the medium of painted paper collage, my goal is to distill my subject to its essence, removing extraneous details to portray the underlying geometry that moves the eye dynamically around the surface as well as creates a harmony of form and color relationships. I enjoy the tension between a representational image and the underlying abstract logic of its composition. It’s a constant struggle, usually involving many adjustments.
A former journalist, with a B.A. in art history from Barnard College, I began exhibiting my paintings, pastels and drawings of Kingston subjects in the early 2000s and since then have taken classes at the Woodstock School of Art as well as workshops with Andrew Wykes, Catherine Kehoe, Nancy McCarthy, Stuart Shils, Elizabeth O’Reilly, and many others. In 2019, I participated in a drawing marathon conducted by the late Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School. I also write about the arts for regional publications and have contributed essays to exhibition catalogs for work by Mary Frank, Grace Wapner, and other artists.
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