Artworks
Lin Kerr is an oil painter seeking to embody atmosphere in her still life paintings and 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.
The Mending Project exemplifies her passion for the Japanese concepts of what was ‘women’s work’ in stitchery and mending. This fabric repair work is known in Japan as Sashiko or Boro and is used in a way that beautifies the garment.
Her landscapes are often understated and generic and originate from her observation, usually in Oxfordshire. Here she explores and exploits oil paints in layers of scratching back and adding marks, using a variety of tools and often just fingers or a palette knife to manipulate the paint. She often works over a background of text which is integrated into the oil painting.
Galleries and Exhibitions
- Exhibited most years at Oxford Art Society exhibitions since 2018
- Participated in Artweeks since 2016
- Participated at Art In Action 2009-2014
- 2016 – 2024 Dolphin Gallery, Wantage
- 2023 Kingfisher Gallery, Cheltenham
- 2020 – 2024 Fillingdon Fine Arts, High Wycombe
Prizes & Accolades:
- She has won many prizes and awards for her calligraphy.
- Award in International Grote Prijs, Belgium, 2002 (Lettering Arts)
- Pythagoras QED is in the permanent collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. (Lettering Arts)
- 2023: Watercolour painting accepted at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at The Mall Gallery.
- 2024: Oil painting shortlisted at NEAC, Mall Gallery.
Academia and membership
- Fine arts degree majoring in Art History and Oil Painting
- Teachers degree
- Distinctions in CLAS gilding and CLAS Italics (Lettering Arts)
- Full Member of Letter Exchange (Lettering Arts)
- Member of Oxford Art Society
Lin has always produced art for as long as she can remember. She trained at Wits University in fine arts and as an Art teacher through UNISA. Dave and Lin moved to the United Kingdom in 1998 from Cape Town, South Africa. They live in Oxfordshire. Lin had a daily blog from 2011-2016 and stil wites the occasional post: blog. The Limetrees Newsletter gives photographic updates on workshops and current art events.
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