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progressed this to include historical references, where I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
