"Catching Crows" By Lyn Hodnett
Lyn Hodnett's instantly recognizable work features strong, robust women. Bright and bold ladies cavorting about and the influence of popular myth and story is always close at hand. Lyn's preferred medium, acrylic on paper and card Is successfully combined with charcoal, coloured pencils and varnish, resulting in great depth of colour and vitality. "Vibrant colour and humor have long been central to Lyn's work. Recently the colour although still rich is darker, as though everything is bathed in a mystical twilight. The humor too is more veiled and therefore more intriguing.
Lyn Hodnett, a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University, has won five national art prizes including the British Airways Young Achievers in Art Award, resulting in a commission to create a 5ftx8ft painting for Heathrow Airport. Recently Lyn's work has changed in tone and the women in her bold and vividly coloured paintings are now more often alone. Stylistically there is a new air of realism. Her love of the medium of painting is still very much apparent in the opulent colour and rich texture of the work.
