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The 'Behind Music' in Art : Artist Lynda Cookson
On a deeper level than the notions of freedom and rebellion which are the core elements of her work, incorporating strong colour and movement, Cookson works with what she terms the 'behind music'; she works with the masks of protection and the layers of learning we develop and build up through our lives; she works with how we learn to live with those masks and layers, and how we achieve our wisdom.
The 'behind music' is all the parts of a symphony concert in their separate forms, all the patterns of sound, the individual notes, the individual instruments, the emotions elicited, the energy expended and the people involved, which unite to make the complete piece of music so beautiful, soul-reaching, acceptable and exciting to the masses of people who listen to it.
Cookson's parallel is the lives we are living, learning and sculpting to make ourselves better and more wise; to make ourselves more beautiful, valuable and acceptable to the society we belong in, while still coping with the energy needed to smooth out every-day stresses and influences in meeting our challenges.
Her recent work exhibits her respect for the work of Irish painter Louis le Brocquy. Other influences include Kenneth Webb, Jack Yeats and Matisse. Reminders of Picasso slip in now and then, especially in her charcoal sketches.
Of her methods and techniques she says: 'True inspiration comes when I am excited by a subject to the point of sleeping badly at night and - preserve me! - wanting to get up early in the morning. I use oils, sometimes acrylics, on artist-prepared stretched linen canvas or linen-covered board, occasionally using my own handmade paper and various fabrics for texture beneath the paint. I like the surface to have a 'tooth'. Much of my work is done with palette knives and brushes but I also use sponges, my fingers, pieces of cardboard, paper table napkins and scrunched plastic. In fact, whatever is to hand in the moment of need. My work tends to be 'colourist', building up layers of paint whilst often allowing lower layers to show through, giving movement and life to the painting. I use imagination, and freedom of colour and movement, to bring my paintings to life, finding inspiration in the unexpected and in the use of 'rebellious' colours. Once the painting is complete it's important for me to be impelled to look at it again and again and to feel the butterflies of pleasure in what has been created - otherwise I paint over it again!'
Cookson's work has sold in South Africa, Namibia, many parts of the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Spain and the Dominican Republic. She has worked with Adams Fine Art Auctioneers in Dublin; the Fisherman's Galleries in both Swakopmund (Namibia) and Hermanus (Southern Cape, South Africa); the Bold Art Gallery, Galway; Cong Art Gallery, Co. Mayo; Lavelle Art Gallery, Clifden; Lahinch Gallery (Kennys), Co. Clare; and Sala Barna in Barcelona, Spain.
Price Range
US$79-2,015
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Exhibitions
October 1999 - The Lodge, Greyton, SA
2000/2001Village Art Gallery, Greyton, SA
2000/2001 - Fisherman's Art Gallery branch, Swakopmund, Namibia
2000/2001 - The Lyn Cookson Art Gallery, Greyton, SA
August 2000 - Decorexpo, Johannesburg, SA
2002/2003 - The Lyn Cookson Art Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2003 - Galleries An Beag, Galway, Ireland
April/May 2003 - Installation Art Exh : Project Transportable "Crossing/Knotting", Nordbahnhof Station, Berlin
July/October 2003 - The Boat Inn, Oughterard, Co. Galway, Ireland
November 2003 - Solo Exhibition, Galway Public Library, Co. Galway, Ireland
May 2004 - Summer Art Ireland, Dublin
June 2004 - People's Art Exhibition, Dublin
June/July 2004 - Women's Panorama Art Exhibition at Zanzibar Int. Film Festival, Zanzibar, Tanzania
November 2004 - Autumn Collection Art Ireland, Dublin
May 2005 - Sala Barna, Barcelona, Spain
June 2005 - Art in the West, Galway, Ireland
August 2005 - St Patrick's Trian, Armagh, Northern Ireland
December 2005 - Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
March 2006 - Sala Barna, Barcelona
July 2006 - Project 06, Galway Arts Festival, Galway
August 2006 - Airfield Trust, Dublin - Solo exh
September 2006 - Fisheries Tower, Galway - Solo exh
2007 - Sala Barna, Barcelona - Solo exh
October 2009 - Solo exhibition, Sala Barna, Barcelona, Spain
June 2009 - Solo exhibition,Thinkk Creative Gallery, Limerick
2009 date to be decided - BArtistic Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
December 2008 - Christmas Exhibition, SqSpace Gallery, Belfast, NI
December 2008 - Christmas Exhibition, Bold Art Gallery, Galway
September/October 2008 - ‘About 12’ group exhibition, SqSpace Gallery, Belfast, NI
September/October 2008 - Solo exhibition, Sala Barna, Barcelona, Spain
July 2008 - Solo exhibition for Galway Arts Festival at Radisson SAS Hotel, Galway ‘Dancing In Sunshine’
August 2008 - Solo exhibition for Galway Race Week at Radisson SAS Hotel, Galway ‘Taking Equestrian Art into the 21st Century’
2008/2009 two group exhibitions took place at the Sq Space Gallery in Belfast
November 2009 - launch of Cookson's book entitled "Tea 'n Turps" ISBN 978-1-60360-843-5 together with an exhibition of work at Sq Space Gallery, Belfast
Education
Self study : From Classical European to Contemporary
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