Lydia Bauman

Born in Warsaw, Poland, now living and working in London, I am a painter and art historian.

I've been a painter of wilderness for many years. I interpret it in a complex mixed media technique involving combining pigments with plaster, resin, wax, patinas, texture gels, metal leaf etc to create textured surfaces evocative of the look and feel of the landscapes I observe around the world.

My latest project involved me travelling to New Mexico to identify and reinterpret landscape motifs painted and made famous by the Modernist Georgia O’ Keeffe. This is the body of work exhibited at the summer Other Art Fair in July 2019.

B.A in Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (John Christie Scholarship, The Hatton Award, Newcastle University)
M.A History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art (1st class honours with Distinction)

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1986: Leigh Gallery, London
1988: 'Mixed Metaphors', Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1989: 'Images of Jeddah', ARTvision Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
1990: * 'Grow Not in Each Other's Shadow', Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London * Design and Decoration Building, Chelsea, London
1991: Mistral Gallery, London
1992: Mistral Gallery, London
1993: Primavera Gallery, Cambridge
Catto Gallery, London
1994: Gallery B, London
1995: Primavera Gallery, Cambridge '
The Waiting Earth' Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
'A Small Retrospective' Gallery Teatr NN Lublin, Poland
1997: 'Landscapes' National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zacheta, Warsaw,Poland '
In Search of the Promised Land' Catto Gallery, London
1998: 'A New Perspective' Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1999: 'Highways and Byways' Touring exhibition: * Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
Leeds University Gallery ,Liverpool University Gallery
2000: 'Journeys of Faith' The Gallery, Lincoln
2001: * Alstom, Lincoln ( in collaboration with Art and Business)
'Morocco' Catto Gallery London
2002: 'Lincoln - All the Secret Places' Lincoln Cathedral
2003: 'Morocco' La Mamounia Hotel, Marakesh, Morocco
2004: 'From My Travels' exhibition at The Gallery in ...