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Lin Kerr’s Virtual Artweeks Exhibition

May 2, 2020 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

May 2020

This year I am offering 10% off the asked prices of all works except those at Zuleika Gallery and any £200 or under which are part of Artist Support Pledge. For all others you get 10% discount and 10% will be given to NHS Oxford Hospitals. (only during May Artweeks)

VIRTUAL ARTWEEKS 2020

Join the prize draw on Instagram @linkerrdesign
to win
£100 voucher to spend at my gallery

As you enter my exhibition, please join me with a cup of coffee or tea and contemplate

‘Lilies for Alison’

1. Lilies for Alison: 100cm x 80cm – 9 joined panels , mounted, ready to hang £1200

This painting is a tribute to my dear sister in law Alison who passed away on 19-04-20 after a short fierce battle with cancer. It can be seen at the Art for the Heart exhibition at Zuleika Gallery who are giving 25% of the proceeds to support Oxford Hospitals. If you are interested please contact lin@linkerrdesign or https://zuleikagallery.com/nhs/

2. Walking the Ridgeway: 60cm x 60cm Oils over text mounted, ready to hang, £500

I was honoured that Zuleika also selected Walking the Ridgeway for their Art from the Heart exhibition. If you are interested please contact lin@linkerrdesign or https://zuleikagallery.com/nhs/ Thick impasto and off-set oil painting textures make this a very tactile piece.

Step into the ‘red’ room.
Imagine you are sitting at a table in your home, looking out of the window. This painting depicts some of my vases, lovely pussy willow, lilies (which I nearly always have) and a view of the countryside beyond. As always I have shown my lovely table cloths, here with pure gold squares added to it. (When I am not painting, I am a textile junkie!)

3. Still life on a fine day: oils over text on 16 joined panels, mounted, ready to hang, £950
4. Seaview from cafe: oils over text on 16 joined panels, mounted, ready to hang, £950

I love all aspects of the sea and below are some small paintings depicting the gnarled windblown milkwood trees from the Garden Route in Cape Town.

5. Milkwood: 20 x 25cm – oils on panel, mounted, ready to hang. £175
6. Onrus : 20 x 25cm – oils on panel, mounted, ready to hang. £175
7. Restless Sea : 20 x 25cm – oils on panel, mounted, ready to hang. £175
These paintings are for Artist Support Pledge.
8. Cornish Cliff Walk: 30 x 40cm, unframed, £200 Painting for Artist Support Pledge.
9. Turquoise Sea: 30 x 30cm, unframed, £200 Painting for Artist Support Pledge.
10. Alone at 7am – 45 x 45cm – Oils on panel. framed, £425
11. Evening: 51 x 76cm – Oils on panel, framed £650
12. Orange dusk: 45 x 45cm – Oils on panel. framed, £425
13. Fragmented Sunset: 45 x 45cm – Oils on panel. framed, £425

I have been exploring sunsets in vibrant colours and textural effects, but the next one was a response to the tree shadows, after an evening of sitting on the patio, sipping wine and sketching.

14. Tree Shadows: 45 x 45cm – Oils on panel, unframed, £350
15. Armadillo Copse : 45 x 45cm – Oils on panel, unframed, £350

And so we move into Autumn. Armadillo Copse refers to the little armadillo shaped copses that can be found perching on the tops of hills and all over Oxfordshire. It has deeply ploughed impasto fields, furrows that have collected bits of glaze; sparkles of colour and a calligraphic foreground of painterly marks.

16. Lightning Tree: 60 x 60cm – Oils on panel, mounted, ready to hang, £500

I love skeleton trees with their awesome spectral whiteness.
And then, in the next room, we drift from Autumn into winter…

17. Winter Walk 25 x 20cm – oils on canvas, unframed, £175.
Painting for Artist Support Pledge.
18. Puddled Verge: 45 x 45cm – Oils on panel, framed, £425

Puddled Verge was the result of a sudden hour of sunshine on a cold and rainy New Year’s Day – we went for  a drive to the back of the Ridgeway and the Winter evening sunset was spectacular reflecting in all the puddles. A few weeks later it was snowing and the next two paintings were painted after snowy walks.

19. Snowy Footpath: 45 x 45cm – Oils on panel. framed, £425
20. Melting Snowfields 122 x 60cm – Oils on birchply, framed, £850
Detail of melting snowfields.

My mini gallery of cold wax paintings are abstract, or suggest hidden landscapes.

Left: Fractured window: £100 – part of Artist Support Pledge.

These are all 6” x 6” and can be grouped, tray framed or just one will look good in a small space or a narrow wall. They can also be displayed on a shelf on a stand. They are all mounted on 6mm board.

21: Gilded Sea; 22: The woods beyond
23: White Rainbow; 24: Tarnished weather
Each of these are £100 and are part of Artist Support Pledge.

Painting from Life

Each week (when not in lockdown) I go to a life-drawing class. We have an hour of warm-up exercises, frequently with a brief, and after tea, a one-hour pose. I arrive with prepared board, often with gessoed text, my walnut ink and my oil paints. Some people just draw, other’s may do pastels or coloured sketches.
I complete my paintings at home – this is challenging without photos or a model!

Coral: 50 x 61cm oils on gessoed board, unframed, £400
Nude in sunlight 50 x 61cm oils on gessoed board, with gold leaf, unframed, £400
Rouge: 50 x 61cm oils on gessoed board, oils and oil pastel, unframed, £400
Girl with a golden eyebrow-ring: 50 x 61cm oils on gesso over text with gold leaf, unframed, £500

If you wish to buy any paintings, please contact me and I can give you more details about any of the pieces. If you wish to see the pieces, please arrange a date with me and we can do so while practising social distancing. You can pay online, via Paypal or by cheque. Prices exclude post and packaging, but collection is free!

Thank you for visiting my art exhibition. To enter the £100 draw, visit Instagram to see my daily post.

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