‘The more you appreciate about your past, the richer your experience of the present’

Lynne’s new collection of work is essentially about time and generational differences.

Looking back on her upbringing, and now with a family of her own, Lynne realises the phrases and ways of doing things have been shaped by her childhood. She is now passing this on to her own daughter.

Lynne often catches herself repeating common phases such as “Do you think Money grows on trees?” and “kids these days”. Owning the Quarter-acre Dream is also part of Lynne’s memories of her parents. The images these words conjure up in her mind are then captured into Agee preserving jars. The process of preserving was relevant to her generation and was all about storing something in abundance then using at a later date. This is similar to how she uses the sayings, in other words you choose the right time to make your point with a particular saying or tell stories of relevant memories which have shaped your thinking.

Lynne experiments with a variety of supports ranging from canvases/wooden rounds to light boxes. Many of her paintings are in the shape of a round to reflect that the images of phrases and ways of doing things are cyclical and the notion of what goes around, comes around.

Artist Residence at Samuel Marsden Collegiate

Lynne’s completed her residencey at Samuel Marsden Collegiate in June/August as their Artist in Residence. This resulted in an exhibition at the sponsor’s showroom, Wellington Star - Mercedes Benz on Friday 19th August 2011.

Click here to view some of the work from her show