Self Portrait
of the Artist
Lynda Roberts
was born in Liverpool, but moved to Manchester when she was eight,
living in Cheetham Hill, (Hightown) as it was then called. She
now resides in Prestwich, where she has lived for the past 30
years. She attended Bolton Institute as a mature student, completing
2 years Foundation work and is now in the final year of her Visual
Arts BA Hons degree. Although her work was mainly representational,
there has been a gradual shift over the years towards abstraction.
“My
work has always been spontaneous and gestural. Investigation
into abstraction, I feel has freed my work even more.”
In between
her course work, which includes a dissertation about German Myth,
she is presently engaged in the promotion of her website, which
shows a personal project that she completed last year, and is
continuing to resolve in her final year.
“The
‘Echostains’ concept explores the realms of communication
and code, by use of colour and spatial relationships. I have
progressed this to include historical references, where I explore
the use of colour to suggest these, (any figurative images are
purely incidental). The main objective is communication, how
we perceive and ‘read these ‘codes’. From the
stain on Leonardo’s wall to the magical code of the Fibonacci
numbers, String Theory, (Which I’m working on at the moment,
not on my site yet).”
Lynda’s
work investigates the idea of the artist as a magician and attempts
to communicate on a metaphysical plain through subconscious use
of colour and form.
“The
‘stain’ is the form, and the ‘echo’ is the
communication between the artist and the viewer – an exchange.”
Lynda can
be contacted by email at: art@echostains.co.uk
You can
view some of her work on her website at: www.echostains.co.uk
