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KATE LYNCH |
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Home Kate Lynch has become known for her rural art projects in Somerset - drawings and paintings of traditional farming, trades and crafts and recorded interviews with her subjects. Her early journeys were with willlow growers and basketmakers on the Somerset Levels (Willow 2003) and shepherds and other people working with wool (Sheep – from Lamb to Loom 2009). Her latest project “The Beekeeper and the Bee” is launched this year. The exhibition tours to: Rural Life Museum, Somerset 16th June – 28th July 2012
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS Kate has exhibited in London and the West Country and her ‘Willow’ and ‘Sheep’ exhibitions also toured to Norfolk, Lancashire, Gloucester and Yorkshire.
AWARDS Kate has received awards and prizes for her work from The Arts Council, Somerset County Council, Wessex Water, Black Swan Arts and the Somerset Levels and Moors Action for Rural Communities, the Lark Trust, the Elmgrant Trust and other bodies. Her paintings are in several public collections, including The 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. "Kate's paintings are not realistic in a photographic
sense but are deeply expressive and atmospheric through meticulous
observation of her subjects" |
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