Artist's statement
Biography
About the artist

 

Over the years, Wyn-Lyn’s paintings have developed from the figurative to the abstract. Her works are intimately personal explorations of thoughts, emotions, and at times, simply a spontaneous, intuitive dialogue with her materials or reactions to her surroundings.

Dealing with space, layers and ambiguity, Wyn-Lyn’s work sees an equilibrium between muted softness and intense surfaces that reveal spontaneous spattering, and mark-making of all sorts.

Her abstract paintings, while contemporary in style, have a foundation in old-school Impressionism and traditional Chinese ink painting techniques. While they are not deliberately about landscapes, they subconsciously hover between nature and abstraction. The artist often begins with a sum of random mark-making and works towards a place where things no longer feel arbitrary—and the work takes over. Her process is marked by both spontaneity and pools of contemplation, with an affinity for black that recalls the look of Chinese ink.

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