RENE LYNCH

BEHIND THE GARDEN GATE:

I wanted to see this exhibition because of the work that I am currently doing:

• Her work looks like prints, and I am newly in printmaking, her work seemed to be the perfect combination.
• I am exploring women's portraits in my own work, and the subject of all of her work is women.
• I'm interested in working with floral pattern, which I can relate to the plants that she paints.

Rene's paintings suggest deep space without a foreground which I find interesting.
The repetition of the gradient background at first seemed a bit elementary.
After looking at them I came to like the way the flatness of the gradient allowed for the detailed figures to really pop off of the canvas.
Although the subjects were a bit too fantasy-world for me, I was fully engaged in the compositions.