Lynda Hyde
Blue Mountains, Australia
Hard-edge Geometric Paintings and Limited Edition Modernist Block Prints
MessageBased in the beautiful Blue Mountains west of Sydney Australia, I’ve had a career in the Arts for 40 years, as an artist, set and costume designer and as a performer in Contemporary Dance, Magic and Mime.
On leaving school I trained in drafting, leading to a fascination with the geometric form which I explored through painting. From 1978 to 1983 exhibited at SMAC Gallery in Croydon.
I studied Relief Printing in the late 80’s at Waverley-Woollahra Arts School and in 2011 completed CIV Fine Arts and in 2012 Master Printmaking both at WSI NADC.
I worked with my husband Timothy for many years in our entertainment company Achieving the Impossible, travelling and performing Magic and Illusion Shows extensively in Australia and abroad. As well as performing, I was responsible for costume, prop and set design as well as using my design skills in publicity and promotional material. I also freelanced for many other performing artists and companies.
As a Printmaker I am currently producing Minimalist Block Prints in a Modernist style. I have previously produced Reduction Linocut Prints.
My paintings are currently larger Geometric Abstractions in acrylic. These explore the Perception of Movement, Shifting Planes and Points of Focus.
There is an intersection between Op Art, Hard-edge Geometric Abstraction and Colour Field painting that I love, and my larger works reflect this. The work grows from the early European pioneers in the field of Perceptual Abstraction; Victor Vasarely, the father of the Op Art movement, and Zanis Waldheims and his “Geometrization of the Exhaustive Thought.”
“I use traditional techniques and equipment from my background in drafting to create hard edged geometric paintings that explore tricks of the eye. Designed to both amuse and bemuse, they also reflect my career in magic and illusion.”
Please contact me to get details of any of the paintings on display here.
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Exhibitions
2021 October - Solo Exhibition, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2021 February - Solo Exhibition, Disorder Gallery, Sydney
2019 July – Solo Exhibition Anala Art Advisory, Glenbrook
2019 February – Solo Exhibition Braemar Gallery, Springwood
2018 October – Solo Exhibition Atelier Gallery, Lawson
2018 January – Solo Exhibition Atelier Gallery, Lawson
2014 Solo Exhibition Number 47 Gallery, Rylstone
2011 Group Exhibition, Trapezium Gallery, Kingswood
2010 Group Exhibition, Springwood Community Arts Centre
1988 Group Exhibition, Waverley-Woollahra Arts School
1987-88 Group Exhibitions, St George Potters Group
1978 -83 Exhibited at SMAC Gallery in Croydon