Lynda Minter

Lynda Minter trained at St Martins School of Art in 1983.
Lynda’s Landscapes and City paintings are inspired by her walks and travels. Over the years Lynda has taken her sketchbook everywhere. She aims to make images which have a life of their own. Lynda does not paint pictures to a system or a formula she is striving to find a personal response by observation and drawing. Having developed visual shorthand of mark making over the years.
Lynda is a long admirer of David Bomberg, Sargent, Edward Seago, Monet and Van Gogh for his lovely colours and Oskar Kokoschka for his use of bright colours in his paintings of the Thames. Lynda believes it’s important to observe and learn from other artists but remain true to oneself.
Method of working
Lynda either works directly in front of her subject or paints from sketches. She is constantly looking at ways of making her paintings more exciting which often involves overlapping patterns, shapes, and line, producing spontaneous images within each composition experiencing them together as one coherent picture.
Lynda uses different techniques, often painting over images either in acrylic or oils. Taking risks by adding other mediums such as chalk using her fingers, end of brushes, rags, larg...

St Martin's School of Art (BA)
Slade Summer School 1986

Selected Exhibitions
2024 Affordable Art Fair Battersea
2015/16 /17/18 Henley Royal Regatta
2014/16 Piers Feetham Gallery solo shows
2015 Wellington Barracks solo show
2013 Artist in Focus at River & Rowing Museum, Henley, solo show
2012 Winchester College solo show
2009 Frost and Reed, London
2008 Langton Street Gallery Chelsea two man show
2008 Artist in Focus Dover Street Arts Club solo show
2006 Chelsea Arts Club solo show /Buckinghamshire County Museum
2006/16 The Discerning Eye
2005/06 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2005 Guaranty Trust Bank, Nassau Bahamas
2004 Christie’s Wine Trade Art Society – Painter Stainers prize
2002 Belgravia Gallery two man show
Collections: Tresco Estate, River & Rowing Museum ‘The Thames on Diamond Jubilee’

Biographical and Publications
1983 St Martins’s School of Art BA Hon Fine Art Sculpture
Wednesday 16th November 2005,The Discerning Eye Issue 9 Spring 2006, The Tresco Times Autumn 2006, Kensington and Chelsea Today 2012 featuring Lynda Minter paintings of the river.