In March 2007, Wyn-Lyn spent one month in residency in Fiskars Village, on the west coast of Finland. The white vastness of the winter landscape was inspiring in its
desolate beauty, striking a chord within as her work deals with space, layers and ambiguity.
Lighter suggests the softer, lighter, more ethereal transparent quality her works took on while painting in Finland; deriving their inspiration from its snow, melting
ponds, and the blush of dawn on lake reflections.
Venue: FOST Gallery
65 Kim Yam Road
Singapore 239366
Tel: 6836-2661
Exhibition dates: 8 - 30 May 2009
Gallery Hours Tue–Sat: 12–7pm
Prelude Art Fair at Spitalfields, London, 4-6 July 2008.
Wyn-Lyn was selected for a four-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA from 11 May to 6 June 2008. Inspiration here came in the form of blue skies, flowing rivers and lush mountains.
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Random Starts is a three-person exhibition of abstract paintings inspired by first brushstrokes. While the three artists’ works are ultimately different in styles, what ties them together is their working method in starting a painting. Each begins with a completely spontaneous and random brushstroke, with no preconceived plan of what is to come next.
For instance, Valerie Ng whose works are characterized by thick oil strokes, starts with a palette knife to mark her first stroke. Wyn-Lyn Tan, whose acrylic paintings are at once lyrical and strong, begins each painting with a wash of black strokes. Yeo Shih Yun’s minimalist works plays on space and are often defined by the first bold ink stroke. This first mark on the canvas or paper provides each artist with a visual ‘lead’ on which to work on. From there, each artist is propelled by a mix of spontaneous energy, instinct and intuition that carries through till the painting feels complete.
In this exhibition, the works will comprise of abstract paintings in oils, acrylic and ink on canvas and paper and will be of varying sizes.
Transparent is an exhibition of art, design and craftsmanship in Fiskars Village, Finland based on the theme of transparency. Wyn-Lyn will be showing 5 paintings alongside Finnish and other foreign artists. Click here for more on the exhibition and pictures of works. The exhibition runs from May 13 till September 30, 2007.
Sponsor: 3818 COOL GALLERY
Opening Reception: May 19 2007 3:00-6:00pm
Exhibition Dates: May 19 - June 14 2007
Gallery Hours: 10:30am-6:30pm
Address: 3818 Warehouse, 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Telephone: 010-86882525, 84566664
Website: http://www.3818coolgallery.com
Clear and Bright is a three-person exhibition of abstract paintings exploring elements of East and West. Held in 3818 Cool Gallery in the 798 Art District of Beijing.
Anticipation is a Yellow Sky is taken from the title of one of the artist’s paintings. Her richly intense works play on opposites, and are symbolic of an internal world that’s often a contradiction of emotions and thoughts—happiness and sadness, calm serenity and crazy madness, hope and despair, anger and love. Likewise, her seemingly irrelevant titles play on the illogical, the contrary and sometimes, the nonsensical.
While her paintings are not deliberately about landscapes, they subconsciously hover between nature and abstraction. Her attraction to colour sees rich, intense paintings that reveal spontaneous spattering, irrelevant musings, swift lines, and mark-making of all sorts. These are contrasted with muted hues and an attraction to black that recalls the look of Chinese ink.
In this exhibition, the works will comprise of paintings and drawings in acrylic on canvas. They will be of varying sizes - from as small as framed, mini palm-sized pieces to works measuring as large as 140 x 200cm.
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