Artist Statement

I paint colorful, whimsical worlds filled with odd shapes, interwoven line and vivid colors. My aim is to create art with the belief that art can inspire people, make a house a home, and bring joy and positive energy into the world! I also believe art can have a healing impact on the artist as well as the viewer and the world.

My paintings are a way to express my inner vision in what I call my symbolic language. I love color. I love texture. I like to take shapes, lines, textures and colors to create a world from the imagination. Worlds of playfulness and energy connecting each of us to each other.

My work focuses on the idea that everything in our universe is connected. Everything is in a relationship with everything else. This idea is shown as glowing elements in my paintings. Recently I've been using a dot pattern in my work which represents connectivity and paths of energy.

Some things I like and you'll see in my paintings, swirly spirals, birds, symbolic shapes and lots of color!

Process

The medium I use most in painting is acrylic. My technique involves building up layers of paint over an undercoat of textural pattern. I use a dry paper, wood panel or canvas that is covered with gesso. Layers of color and line are applied next. My own printing technique is used to apply pattern to the painting. Often this pattern is given an aged look by rubbing some of the paint off with water when it is semi-dry. More color, marks and images are applied next, building up layers and giving the painting a feeling of depth, texture and age as the patterns begin to fade into the background.

Biography

Lindy's parents were art collectors with a passion for sharing their love of fine art with their three children. The three were taken to art museums and galleries on family trips and exposed to big coffee table artbooks in the family living room.

Lindy, the youngest, let her imagination be stirred with the images and colors of the great masters. She loved to look at paintings by Kandinsky, Miro, Chagall, Van Gogh, Klee and many others. It was this exposure to art, that moved her to want to create. As a young child she liked to draw and as an older child, she liked to construct things; a big styrofoam castle, a raggedy ann doll, puppets and ceramic figures. Later came fanciful drawings, mixed media collages, painted art furniture, and then acrylic paintings.

Born in Seattle, Washington in 1959, Lindy earned a Bachelors in Fine Art from Washington State University. After college, Lindy worked in the graphic arts industry as a computer production artist. At the same time, she was creating and showing her fine art.

In 1996, with the desire to expand her world, Lindy moved to New York City to continue her artistic path. She established herself with an art studio in Manhattan and began showing her work with The 14th Street Painters, a group of professional and emerging artists, represented by the Earl Gallery. Lindy’s artwork flourished with the frenetic and creative environment of the city and this is where she developed her unique style of painting.

She was awarded the Award of Merit in the 1999 Manhattan Arts International, 8th Annual Competition, the Award of Excellence in the 1998 Manhattan Arts International, 7th Annual Competition and a Purchase Award by the School of Visual Arts, located in Manhattan.

In the summer of 1999, she moved to Portland, Oregon and then on to Bend in 2003 where she began showing her work at The Tumalo Art Co. gallery.

Bend’s Deschutes Brewery chose Lindy as their 2007 Jubelale artist and she won a third place award for her artwork in Mirror Pond Gallery’s “Shoozam, the Shoe as Metaphor” show. That artwork was also featured on the cover of The Source Weekly, Bend’s weekly newspaper.

Lindy became a full-time painter in the Fall of 2008 and her art has continued to flourish! Lindy's art has been featured in articles in the Bend Bulletin and Sister's Nugget News as well as on website's across the internet. Her painting "One Raven Looked to Another" is featured on the cover of the first edition of the 2010 Central Oregon Wellness Directory.

Currently, Lindy has a home and studio in southwest Bend, where she continues to expand her love of art and the creative process.

Resumé

EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Gallery at the Lodge, Solo Show, "Whimsical Worlds", Black Butte Ranch, OR
2009 Tumalo Art Co., Group Show, "Small Works", Bend, OR
2009 Tumalo Art Co., 2 Person Show, "Color, Form & Fantasy", Bend, OR
2009 Tumalo Art Co., Group Show, Art Opening for New Location at the Old Mill, Bend, OR
2008 St. Charles Hospital, 2 Person Show, Bend, OR
2008 Tumalo Art Co., 2 Person Show, “Form, Texture, Symbol,” Bend, OR
2008 Tumalo Art Co., Group Show, Bend, OR
2007 Earl Gallery, Exhibition 20, Group Show, New York, NY
2007 Tumalo Art Co., 2 Person Show, “New Work,” Bend, OR
2007 Tumalo Art Co., Group Show, Bend, OR
2006 Pettibone Framing, 3 Person Show, Bend, OR
2006 Tumalo Art Co., 2 Person Show, “Journey,” Bend, OR
2006 St. Charles Hospital, 3 Person Show, Bend, OR
2006 Angeline’s Bakery, 2 Person Show, Sisters, OR
2005 Tumalo Art Co., Group Show, Bend, OR
2005 Montinore Estate, Group Benefit Show, “Art of the Egg,” Juried, Forest Grove, OR
2004 Mirror Pond Gallery, Miniature Show, Juried, Bend, OR
2004 Mirror Pond Gallery, Juried Group Show, “Shoozam, the Shoe as Metaphor,” Bend, OR - Third Place Award
2004 Sage Cafe, Group Benefit Show, “Coffee Theme,” Bend, OR
2003 Mirror Pond Gallery, Miniature Show, Juried, Bend, OR
2003 Earl Gallery, Exhibition 17, Group Show, New York, NY
2002 Earl Gallery, Exhibition 16, Group Show, New York, NY
2002 Talisman Gallery, Exhibition 7, “Artists Reflect,” Group Show, Portland, OR
2002 POVA, Group Show, Portland, OR
2001 Talisman Gallery, Exhibition 6, “Blue Show,” Group Show, Portland, OR
2001 Talisman Gallery, 2 Person Show, “Spirit,” Portland, OR
2001 Talisman Gallery, Exhibition 5, Group Show, Portland, OR
2001 Talisman Gallery, Exhibition 4, Group Show, Portland, OR
2001 Talisman Gallery, Exhibition 3, Group Show, Portland, OR
2000 Earl Gallery, Exhibition 14, Group Show, New York, NY
2000 Talisman Gallery, 3 Person Show, Portland, OR
2000 Talisman Gallery, Exhibition 2, Group Show, Portland, OR
2000 First Presbyterian Church, Marylhurst University Art Therapy Dept. Group Exhibition, Portland, OR
2000 Talisman Gallery, Exhibition 1, Group Show, Portland, OR
2000 Marylhurst University, Art Therapy Dept. Winter Exhibition, Marylhurst, OR
1999 Earl Gallery, Exhibition 13, Group Show, New York, NY
1999 Westside Gallery, School of Visual Arts Spring Exhibition, New York, NY
1998 Nexus Gallery, Small Works Exhibition, Juried, New York, NY
1998 Earl Gallery, Exhibition 12, Group Show, New York, NY
1998 Earl Gallery, Exhibition 11, Group Show, New York, NY
1994 Post Art, Solo Show, Seattle, WA
1993-1996 Art Not Terminal Gallery, Ongoing Group Show, Seattle, WA

EVENTS:
2010 Painting donation to the Deschutes Children's Foundation Art & Wine Auction, Bend, OR
2010 Painting donation to the Dan Price Auction Fundraiser, Bend, OR
2009 Peace Pole Exhibit, Peace Bridge Dedication, Bend, OR
2007 Navigator News/Bedouin, “She Project,” Sisters, OR
2007 Deschutes Brewery Jubelale Artist, Bend, OR
2007 Bend Area Habitat for Humanity’s “Chair-it-able” event, Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend, OR
2006 Evening for the Environment Fundraiser, “Earth Shrine Project,” Environmental Center, Bend, OR
2006 Navigator News/Bedouin, “She Project,” Sisters, OR
2004 Artist Local 101, Altered Stations Exhibit, Sage Cafe, Bend, OR
2003 Artist Local 101, Collective Sculpture Exhibit, Bend Summer Festival, Bend, OR
2001 Open Studio Event, Activspace, Portland, OR
2001 Slide Show, Non-juried, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2000 Portland Open Studio Event, Juried, Portland, OR
1999 Artist Exhibition & Reception, hosted by Sherri & DanYoumans, Bellevue, WA
1999 14th Street Painters, Open Studio Event 3, New York, NY
1998 14th Street Painters, Open Studio Event 2, New York, NY
1998 14th Street Painters, Open Studio Event 1, New York, NY

EDUCATION:
1981 Washington State University, B.A. in Fine Art, Pullman, WA

OTHER CLASSES:
2003 Advanced Ceramics, Art Station, Bend, Oregon
2001 Encaustic Painting, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1999-2000 Marylhurst University, art therapy graduate program, Marylhurst, OR
1998-1999 School of Visual Arts, continuing education, art therapy, New York, NY
1999 Experimental Drawing & Painting Workshop, Vashon Island, WA
1996 Experimental Drawing & Painting Workshop, Orcas Island, WA
1994 Pottery Wheel Throwing, U.W. Experimental College, Seward Park, Seattle, WA
1992, 1994 Experimental Drawing & Painting Workshop, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
1989 Life Mask Making, U.W. Experimental College, Seattle, WA

Please note that I retain all copyrights to my original art, including all rights to reproduce the work. My images may not be used or copied in any manner or for any purpose without my expressed written consent and permission. All of my Artwork and images of my Artwork in every medium including those posted on the internet, are protected by the Intellectual Property and Copyright Laws of the United States.