Anne Lynch RWS

Studied at Edinburgh College of Art
Regular exhibitions in Scotland.
Moved to London in 1973
She has studios in both London and France.
Now exhibits widely in, Britain, France and USA.

Anne was elected an Associate of The Royal Watercolour Society in 2019. She won the Purchase Prize at the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition in 2018, the Art Critic Award in the RI at the Mall Galleries in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Drawing Bursary Discerning Eye exhibition in 2014. Her work is in private and Institutional Collections,Internationally.

Artist Statement

I am fascinated by knowing that our experiences comprise of a juxtaposition of things that have already happened to us (past) and the absorption of what we experience in the now (the present). Particularly my latest work completed after the first Covid lockdown has explored those ideas in a more playful manner. Usually there are a lot of different images going on within the work, some are parts of objects or people. It is like having a conversation with my ideas on the paper and the various images also are talking to each other within the work.

During the lockdown because of the Covid19 virus I did not find it easy to concentrate on producing work.I found separation from my family difficult to deal with and it is interesting that the work post lockdown has themes about fragmentation, memories and objects from my past travels. Time became very elastic sometimes stretching extremely long other times quick and days got tangled up.

Watercolour is a complex media and the challenge to sustain an integrity with the media has led me to explore the use of collage and scale. Scale gives the marks a more powerful resonance and creates more excitement with this unknown journey I embark on. I like to use collage when I feel that I have lost the luminosity of colour which comes by keeping the colour near to the surface of the paper, or when I feel the mark made is too weak.