Rene Lynch, Cassandra Dilemma, Wildfire, oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches


ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

I am a figurative painter of dreamlike images that reinvent myths and fairytales from a feminist and environmental perspective reinvigorating archetypal stories with resonance to our contemporary lives. My psychological works are imbued with a sensitivity to our complex human relationship with Nature and its phenomena. In various series throughout my four decade career I have confronted the stages of a woman’s life and of Nature’s cycles of fecundity and decay, power and vulnerability. The female figures in my paintings function as the embodiment of the mysteries of the sacred and profane. The critic Eleanor Heartney has written: “Lynch captures the strangeness and the beauty of the female experience…”

I construct my images after deep research into the subject, then, allowing myself to wander intuitively around the subject, I create numerous sketches and possible concepts before commiting to a distilled idea that delivers an iconic manifestation. I paint in a realistic but decidedly painterly style. I never use AI to create an image.

My Celtic roots, deep bond with Nature, my wide travels in the world and my daydreams influence my artistic vision.


- Rene Lynch