This year Lin will be exhibiting with four other professional artists in the delightful village of Blewbury at The Clubhouse.
Visit to feast your eyes on Yvette Phillips’ exquisite embroideries and Josie Clouting’s loose, expressive landscapes. We’ll be exhibiting alongside Eleanor Wong who is showing vibrant energetic semi-abstracts in oils, often including animals. Julian March is a potter and has a colourful range of ceramics which are both functional and decorative. The artists will be there to chat to and you are welcome to have a quiet browse while enjoying the variety of work.
The Artweeks exhibition at Blewbury is a great start for a Grand Day Out in the country and is just across the road from Savages Garden centre which has a tea room where you can top up on tea and cake.
Lin Kerr is an oil painter who seeks to embody atmosphere in her still life paintings and wants people to pause and feel the stillness and the beauty of the simple everyday objects that she loves.
‘The dappled morning series began on holiday when I had woken early and tip-toed into a room that had the dawn light reflected through greenery onto the opposite walls in dappled rectangles of light. The world was mine.
This sense of transience is combined with the beauty of everyday objects and fruit. Humble objects have a patina of loveliness because of their timeless shape and the history you can see and feel. It is symbolic of wabi-sabi, where beauty is seen in the imperfect, and nothing is casually discarded.
I have been practicing the principles of mending in a way that beautifies a tear or a worn hole in a garment. My canvas is often ripped and repaired in a way that adds beauty and integrity, reminding the viewer of the idea of the transience of fabric and
reinforcing the concept that the canvas is a surface that is as important as the subject that it depicts. Repairing fabric in such as way comes from the same philosophical origins as the mending of pottery with gold. The brokenness is acknowledged, repaired and beautified and is known in Japan as Sashiko’.
In a different mood, stylised collaged oil paintings set against a backdrop of Lin’s silver birch trees can be enjoyed for the tipped perspectives, patterns of leaves and bark and the scattering or rose hips or roses. There is a sophisticated naivete in the combination of deep and shallow space. All the paintings are beautifully framed.
Lin’s watercolours are about an abundance of flowers loosely drawn and flooded with colour. Her painting (available as a giclee print) Bluebells and salt dish was selected for the Royal Institute of watercolours at the Mall Galleries.