Lin Kerr OAS – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://www.linkerrdesign.co.uk/
07443 561906
lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk

Ayres House Studios – see website for children’s workshops and watercolour demos.

Artist information

Lin Kerr is South African and trained in fine art and adult and secondary school teaching and has lived in the UK for 27 years. She worked in graphic design and teaching, and was a Fellow of Calligraphy and Lettering Arts, and the Honorary president of Oxford Scribes, with an artwork in the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is an Honorary Member of Oxford Art Society. She returned to oil painting full time in 2016. Instagram: LinKerrDesign Website: www.linkerdesign.co.uk e-mail: lin@linkerrdesign.co.uk

Exhibition information

Lin Kerr aims to embody atmosphere in her still life paintings to encourage people to pause and feel the stillness and the beauty of simple everyday objects. The ‘dappled morning’ series has a sense of transience of moving shadows combined with plants and fruit. Humble objects such as enamelware are symbolic of wabi-sabi, where the imperfect is elevated, and nothing is casually discarded. The canvas is often ripped and repaired in a way that adds beauty and integrity, reminding the viewer of aesthetic impermanence. Morning Mimosa was shortlisted for the New English Art Club at the Mall Galleries. Her watercolours are about an abundance of flowers loosely drawn and flooded with colour. Bluebells and salt dish was selected for the RI at the Mall Galleries. She will be giving watercolour demosntrations at Ayres House on Sunday 11th and 18th May.