oils|canvas|board|palette knives, Lynda Cookson, S.Africa/Connemara, Ireland

Loud Ladies, Acrylic on Paper, 350 x 520 mm

Warm Friendship, Oil on Stretched Cotton, 340 x 470 mm

Velvet Elegance, Oil on canvas, 620 x 770 mm

Sunflowers and Irises, Oil on canvas, 620 x 770 mm

Spirit of the Bog, Acrylic on Paper, 160 x 110 mm

Looking Out, Mixed Media, 390 x 290 mm

Boats at Inismacatreer, Oil on Board, 400 x 315 mm

Peaks Beyond the Bog, Oil on Board, 620 x 475 mm

Sophia's Pointes, Oil on Paper, 570 x 750 mm

Romance and Passion, Oil on canvas, 610 x 495 mm

Weather Rolling In, Acrylic on Board, 445 x 605 mm

Racy Reds, Oil on Paper, 525 x 430 mm

Lily, Oil on Paper, 150 x 210 mm

Falling Flowers, Oil on Paper, 525 x 430 mm

A Splash of Orange, Oil on canvas, 620 x 770 mm

Arranged Passion, Oil on canvas, 620 x 770 mm

Can't Wait To Dance, Oil on canvas, 620 x 770 mm

Hot Fields of Lilac, Acrylic on, 400 x 315 mm

Hercules, Oil on canvas, 460 x 610 mm

The Big Pinks, Oil on paper, 530 x 650 mm

Caballo de Vida, Oil on board, 610 x 450 mm

White Daisies, Oil on canvas, 510 x 610 mm

Big Whites, Oil on paper, 390 x 480 mm

Curiosidad, Oil on canvas, approx 600 x 450 mm

About Artist Lynda Cookson

Artist, writer and gallery owner, Lynda Cookson is based in the Maam Valley in Connemara. Her gallery, The Painter's Palette, in the Moycullen Shopping Centre, is her window to the world for her paintings, her books and the 'Breaking Barriers' art courses she runs. Cookson's paintings, presently concentrating on horse and floral subjects, have been described as 'uplifting and stimulating' and she believes that a taste of the unexpected, lightness of spirit and a dose of humour are important elements in her art.
Cookson says of her methods and techniques: 'True inspiration comes when I am excited by a subject to the point of sleeping badly at night and wanting to get up early in the morning. I use oils on artist-prepared stretched linen canvas or linen-covered board, occasionally using my own handmade paper, various fabrics, and texture paste for interest 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 in that I build up layers of pure colour often allowing the lower layer to show through Techniques which give movement and life to the painting are extremely important to me.
'I use my imagination, instinctual freedom of colour, and free stroke-movements 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!'
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