About Lynda Hopkins

I love connections between objects living or not to ourselves, initially painting those alluding to femininity and identity .Recently I expanded my  horizons into landscape. Sometimes my thoughts look into the transience of things ; at the moment I am curating an exhibition on "Transformation".  I often use pastels initially as this is medium that I am comfortable with, as the colours are pure and yet there is also a softness which I like relating to skin, fur and the human touch. Using oils or acrylics gives the pictures more solidity which I also enjoy as the work can become more textural and "real". I initially trained in painting  and over time have explored mosaic and ceramics, and for a few years expressed my thoughts on our contemporary connections with the rural landscape as I live in  rural environment . producing "clothed sheep".  I may come back to making more given the opportunity.