This year Lin will be exhibiting with master upholsterer Gareth Rees in his studio at the fabulous Ayres House Venue. This promises to be an exciting exhibition of oil painted interiors and still life paintings amongst upholstery in progress and the beautiful chairs that Gareth is currently working on.

Ayres House is the sort of delight you stumble on – a hidden treasure on Station Road in an industrial estate behind a florist and an Esso Garage. It is home to 14 professional artistsand as an Associate of Ayres House, Lin will be exhibiting there too. Ayres House will host lots of studios open to the public during Artweeks as well as a group exhibition in the ‘gallery’ room.

Lin Kerr’s series of large and small still life paintings with dappled-light evokes mood and transience on the canvas, orchestrated by plants and beautiful objects. In these oil paintings, there is a tension between timelessness and the passing of time. Many of the canvases have an increased sense of physicality in the added mending / stitching in the Japanese style of Sashiko. Dappled Morning was shortlisted at the Mall Galleries.

Smaller canvases of succulents, houseplants and fruit abound as pops of colour amongst the larger serene canvases. Lin’s watercolours show 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.

Lin has been creating jewellery lately in the African tradition using seed beads; and there are lots of dangly fringe earrings, jewelled earrings and bracelets.
Please visit to chat and enjoy what Ayres House has to offer.