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The Week in Photos: January 17 – 23

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Clarity – January 17 – 23, 2021

 The  Week in Photos at River Road Studio 

January 17 – 23, 2021

Photos from River road Studio – Welcome, Friends!

Last week I shared a photo tour of my fiber art studio.

To begin 2021, I started work on a new  series of wall works.   I work in Encrusted Bead Working, a method of fiber art that is extremely complex because I am working with very tiny objects.  Since I am visually impaired, I work by using n Acrobat CCTV.

This wonderful machine helps me do my work.  I will be sharing the studio and the collection of new wall pieces I am working on this year.  I wanted to open my private studio to allow friends to see where I work and how the work develops over time.

“Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring Series.” will eventually be a group of 12 unique wall hangings.

“Winter Wonderland” will be the first 3 pieces in the series.

I’ll share the progress of this first piece in next week’s blog post.

Four our WEEK in PHOTOS, I am sharing  some  PAINTINGS

that hang in my  studio and surround me with inspiring beauty every day.

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Welcome to River Road Studio –

Open the door and come on in out of the cold.

Front Entrance at River Road Studio

 

Tuesday – January 19th, 2021  –  the temperature is a bit crisp  and some snow on the ground today.

By the end of the week we looked out to a Winter Wonderland – Perfect weather!

 

PHOTO:

This is a vintage thermometer that we received one  year as a gift from my Aunt Jeanne and Uncle harry Hess.

This cold day is perfect for visiting with me in the studio. Thanks for coming over.

 

Here’s the VIEW from our FRONT PORCH on Saturday Morning, January 23.  Snow  this morning was a nice surprise when we opened the door!  The house in the photo is  directly across the road from the front of our house.  We have been friends with three generations of the Koah family .

From our front porch, we can see the nineteenth century farm house we love so much.

Now that you have stepped inside our home, you can see that our calico cat, Ivy, is hiding behind a door.   Isn’t she beautiful!

When  visitors come  – all six of the cats vanish! Maybe this is why they call them “Scaredy Cats?”

 

 Lets go upstairs to the studio and I’ll show you a few of the  PAINTINGS

that surround me and give me joy as I do my own work.

I am inspired by the art works because each one holds many memories over the years of my art life.

I created most of the paintings on the walls.  Several others were done by friends or purchased  from a gallery.

I also love to have art works that were done by friends – and some that I’ve collected on travels. Each piece is personal and precious to me.  I began painting in 1976.  From the first day, I was hooked on painting.

A corner with 2 figure paintings ~ and a Mandala Painting

that I purchased on one of my annual  summer trips to the Czech Republic. I love figure studies because in my own academic education I worked from live models every semester  when I was a student at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.   I purchased several  figure paintings over the years.

This corner of the studio displays 2 figure paintings from Prague and a large Mandala Painting from a series of mine.

In this photo, you can see 2 figure studies from Prague and a painting of a Hopi figure bursting from within a color mandala.

I love working with cultural artifacts as motifs.

And, I love the mandala’s that are ageless in origin. I think of them as a birth image.

I combine cultural artifact images within the mandala.

Mysteries of the Divine Mandala: 

on display  in the studio.  Part of a series of paintings using the mandala – in oils on canvas.

Oil Painting by Lynda Lambert

Mysteries of the Divine Mandela – This one is inspired by Venetian masks.

 

Genre Paintings

As you enter the studio you see a large genre painting on each side of the entrance.

A GENRE PAINTING is a PORTRAIT , or, a painting that has PEOPLE in it.

These 2 paintings were done in the 80s when I was a BFA student at Slippery Rock University of PA.

It was so exciting when figures began emerging as I stood working at my easel. This is when you know that the MUSE has arrived!

This painting is to your LEFT as you walk into the studio.  It is about 5 feet tall.

Painting by Lynda Lambert, 1980s

Discovering images that are unseen is the most exciting way to paint!

 

A few of my portraits hang on another wall –

Rosella Childs captured me as I was painting in the studio at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts – early 1980s.

Daughter, Heidi, sat as a model for me one day when I wanted to do a painting in tertiary colors. I love this painting!

I painted this picture of my father – William Joseph McKinney – from a photo I took of him one afternoon as he was looking at the water flowing beneath the bridge

In this painting, these 2 cowboys suddenly emerged as I was painting in my studio at Slippery Rock University of PA, – I was a BFA Student from 1985 – 1989.

This painting was a gift to me by a former director of the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts. He had a one-person exhibition when I was the ED there (from1993 – 1996). I purchased one painting from his one-man show, and he gifted me another one. He was in his 80s at that time and this was his last exhibition of paintings.

Bare walls are dangerous! I recommend that you allow the beauty of art to surround you in your home, too!

For next week’s visit at River Road Studio,

I will share photos of some of the delightful and fun 3-D Objects in the studio.

If you enjoy your visits here, I’d love it if you would share with your Friends on Face Book.

And, please let me know what you are thinking as you take a little walking tour with me – This Week in Photos.

Are you making  room in your heart  for ART this year?

If so, please let me know about it.

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The Week in Photos: January 17 – 23 — 4 Comments

  1. Francine, I am glad you enjoyed a visit to my studio in the photographs on the blog. I never thought of doing this before – but I am glad I got the idea and started posting this photo essay.
    Today, I am working on the photos for the third “This Week in Photos” article. I’ll be sharing a few of the 3-D objects in the studio – items I purchased from other artists, some were gifted to me, and some are things I collected over the years. I will also share some of my own 3-D pieces such as felted bowl, sculptures from “found objects,” and some of my hand-thrown pottery. This has been an enjoyable new project for 2021 – to share the inner life of the studio which typically a visitor never gets to see. Nearly all of my work goes out to exhibitions and that is where it is seen – so this is different.

    Yes, I always work on a “body of work” in painting. Since my work was always created for gallery exhibitions, it has to all hang together and be cohesive. As you mature as a painter, you begin to understand the value of working this way – while you are working on one, you will get insight into something and you will move on to another one and put that information you just received into that next piece. It is amazing how it works – you are literally dancing with your paintings, all in process. And, the most amazing thing is that if you stay true to the dance, and keep them all active at the same time – they will all come to a conclusion at the same time – all of your work will be completed like a final finale in music. I always worked on many pieces at a time – I would have them lined up around the room, and move from one to another and back and forth – such a very exciting way to paint. It will bring new life and energy to all of your work. Students learn to do this as undergraduates working on a BFA degree in painting.

  2. Dear Lynda, How nice to be invited into your home with photos, art and environment!
    I am painting 3 paintings at the same time. Normally, I paint one at a time to completion. Occasionally, I paint a diptych (2) at the same time, but never 3!

    However one is much further along than the other 2, so now I am going to get all 3 moving!

    Viewing your home and studio I can sense your warmth, your commitment, and joy in the making of art and showiong it afterward. Thank you so much for opening up your heart to us! As we know, making art can be a mystical process and one that connects us to the eternal within each of us. Love you and your work. love, Francine

  3. Suzanne, how nice of you to visit the studio today and comment on the art works. Just about all of the paintings in this room were done before grad school, and some done before I ever entered the university.
    I love to be surrounded with the work of my own past and that of friends who created some of them, too.
    This is a peaceful place where I work without interruptions.

  4. Lynda,
    Thank you for this tour. Your studio is so welcoming, especially with your turquoise walls. I was delighted to see some of your artwork, especially the different styles of painting. You truly are a Renaissance woman. Can’t wait to see some of your 3-D work next week.

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