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"Kate's paintings are not realistic in a photographic
sense but are deeply expressive and atmospheric through meticulous
observation of her subjects"
Fanny Charles, Blackmore Vale Magazine
 Kate Lynch began exhibiting her work in 1985 - primitive and imaginative images of the mother and child. She then developed a more low-key palette and worked from the landscape and still lives. In 1999 a move to the Somerset Levels inspired her interest in documenting the people working in the landscape - the willow growers, peat diggers, shepherds and, more recently, beekeepers. She works in oils, pastels and willow charcoal.
She is a qualified art teacher who has mixed her professional
life as a painter with educational work in schools and community art
projects with all age groups and abilities. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Sheep - from Lamb to Loom, tours Somerset, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, Exmoor
2005 Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne
2003 Willow Exhibition tour to venues in Somerset, Norfolk, Lancashire and Devon
2004 Malthouse Gallery, East Lambrook Manor
2003 Willow – exhibition tour
2002 Somerset Art Week
2001 Malthouse Gallery, East Lambrook Manor
2000 Somerset Art Week
1998, 2000 Alpha House, Sherborne, Dorset
1993, 96, 98 Beaux Arts, Bath
1992 Brewhouse, Taunton
PUBLICATIONS
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Sheep - from Lamb to Loom, An Illustrated Journey
ISBN: 978-0-9544394-2-2
Published by Furlong Fields Publishing
Publication date 14 March 2009.
Willow - Paintings, drawings and Somerset voices, Foreword by David
Bellamy
ISBN: 09544394-0-6
AWARDS
2010 Levels and Moors Action for Rural Community grant for Bee Project
2008 Wessex Watermark Award for Sheep project
2002 Wessex Watermark Award and South West Arts Award for Willow Exhibition and tour
2001 South West Arts Major Award.
1998 1st prizewinner , Royal Bath and West Open
1997 Elected full member of Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
1993 Prizewinner, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield
1992 1st prizewinner, Black Swan Open
COLLECTIONS
Kate' paintings have been purchased for the following permanent
collections:
Wessex Collection, Longleat; Talboys Collection, Royal West of England
Academy, Bristol;
Somerset County Museums Collection; St.
George's Hospital Trust, London
Kate is married to painter James Lynch and they live on the Somerset Levels. Their daugher, Alice Mary Lynch is a designer and dollmaker.
