The Credit union Gallery has reopened with a powerful tribute to summer, featuring an acrylic painting series by Oungre artist, Lyn Johnson. The series is entitled "A Garden Walk".
With a refined, subtle sense of colour and studied yet joyful brush strokes, Lyn's paintings portray the serenity of summer. The viewer feels the essence of the season: the warmth, the sounds and the aromas. Each painting captures a fleeting moment in time in our short, intense summer.
Reflecting the sentiments of many an artist, she states, "I believe that as an artist the best thing is looking forward to your next creation". The joy she felt in creating each of these paintings is easily felt by the viewer. Every mood of summer, including the darker ones, is conveyed in Lyn's work.
Lyn is a native of the Tribune area. As a child, one of her favourite activities was watching her Dad paint pictures. She believes this is where she learned to be creative, beginning to draw at a very early age. "Having a vivid imagination is helpful. Technique is something that is learned over years of putting your talent to use", say Lyn.
Having raised her family, Lyn now finds time to return to her creative art. Acrylics is her medium of choice. Previously, her focus was on portraiture, particularly of children. Yet recently she has found herself more and more attracted to portraying the infinite beauty found in nature, yielding her most recent collection, "A Garden Walk".
"A Garden Walk" will be on view until October 31 at the Weyburn Credit Union, 205 Coteau Avenue East, in the main floor "link". Everyone is invited to visit the Gallery!
