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LYNDA STEVENS
Budapest, - Hungary


A series of mixed-media collage works


Original Artworks (20)

Lynda Stevens; Eroding Columns, 2016, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 This work belongs to a series in which rigid columns emerge from at textured, inchoate background of chaos, so the work depicts the tension between order and chaos.  Textile materials, and paper were used to create the columns, melted candle wax was used to create the chaotic ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2016
50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Kinetic City, 2015, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 This is a cityscape, where the rigidity of the columns is contrasted with the textural chaos of the candle wax.  In some cases the impression of the volumn fades - perhaps merely reflected in a dazzle of light. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2015
50 x 30 cm (19.7 x 11.8 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Sreaked Layers, 2016, Original Mixed Media, 40 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 This work was built up using layers of clay in which reflective glass is embedded in the centre, then the layers were created using textile fragments, painted over with dark and iridescent paints. The work was probably inspired in part by viewing landscapes from the vantafwbkf a ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2016
40 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; City Mirage, 2014, Original Mixed Media, 40 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 Mixed- media composition, juxtaposing an inchoate textured surface against the rigidity of straight columns.  Melted candle wax was used for the textures, acrylic, gouache and enamel paint for the columns, with a little metal foil.  This work explores the tension between artifice and form, and chaos. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2014
40 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; City In Milky Fog, 2015, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 This is a rendition of a cityscape in fog, with translucent surfaces that can be seen though to show up earlier layers, the translucencr of wax contrasted with the Matt of the off- white background. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2015
50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Golden Columns On Green, 2015, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 75 cm. Artwork description: 241 Mixed- Media Piece on Canvas, using acrylicpaper, metal foil and enamel paint. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2015
50 x 75 cm (19.7 x 29.5 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Storm Passing Over Columns, 2022, Original Mixed Media, 60 x 90 cm. Artwork description: 241 In this work I used clay to embed reflective glass fragments in the centre of the composition. Dark borders are contrasted with the pastel colours surrounding the metal foil columns to create the  stormy  effects. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2022
60 x 90 cm (23.6 x 35.4 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Golden Cloud, 2016, Original Mixed Media, 30 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 Mixed- media piece on canvas, using clay, acrylic and enamel paint. . the golden cloudy areas veil the landscape underneath ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2016
30 x 30 cm (11.8 x 11.8 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Dazzling Darkness 3, 2021, Original Mixed Media, 60 x 90 cm. Artwork description: 241 This work uses molten wax as a foundation, with broken glass fragments  beads were then added, the surface painted over with acrylics and iridescent paints ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2021
60 x 90 cm (23.6 x 35.4 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Triangles On Rough Surface, 2019, Original Mixed Media, 40 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 Triangles were applied to a surface covered in textursl or crack paint, then painted over with gold, and given chestnut brown borders...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2019
40 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Lava Slick, 2018, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 75 cm. Artwork description: 241 The basis for this work is melted candle wax, poured over paper squares glued onto the canvas, and broken glass fragments - then painted over with bright red acrylic, with some gold shades added ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2018
50 x 75 cm (19.7 x 29.5 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Foundation, 2014, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 A square pattetn is worked into a background of inchoate texture using textile fragments and paper, hemve the title  Foundation.  Ground zero for a site to work on. Blue acrylic surfaces are contrasted with gold. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2014
50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Maroon Pools, 2015, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 In this work I added molten wax to the canvas, then painted over it with acrylic and enamel paint, to create an obscure landscape perhaps from another planet. The dark colour of the maroon Pools osmeant to contrast with the gold and sandy colours of the background. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2015
50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Lava Pools, 2015, Original Mixed Media, 40 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 In this work I wanted to contrast deep refs and fluorescent red with sandy gold, and theme is to do with volcanic fields...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2015
40 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Whorls Of Cloud, 2016, Original Mixed Media, 50 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 This work is an incomplete vortex or spiral, perhaps like a storm beginning to form. Gold is contrasted with darker colours and off white. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2016
50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Imprints Of Memory, 1989, Original Mixed Media, 42 x 39 cm. Artwork description: 241 Mixed- Media Piece on Board using clay with imprinted pattern, fabric, acrylic and enamel paint.  This work has a frame of 1 centimetre in width beyond the measurements  but this could be removed if desired. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 1989
42 x 39 cm (16.5 x 15.4 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Urban Ephernerality, 2010, Original Mixed Media, 40 x 55 cm. Artwork description: 241 Mixed- Media Piece on Board, using acrylic, enamel paint, paper and melted candle wax...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2010
40 x 55 cm (15.7 x 21.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Eroding Columns In Sandy ..., 2008, Original Mixed Media, 40 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 Mixed- Media Piece on Boardising acrylic, metal foilenamel paint and clay...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2008
40 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Cloud Over Midnight Sky, 2021, Original Mixed Media, 40 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241 This work contrasts a a milky grey stain with a dark palette elsewhere, so that even the cloud has a  dark  quality. ...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 2021
40 x 40 cm (15.7 x 15.7 inches)
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Lynda Stevens; Peacock Within The Nigredo, 1990, Original Mixed Media, 73 x 65 cm. Artwork description: 241  Mixed- Media Piece on Board using wax, glue, glass, fabric, glass fragments and acrylics.  This work has a wooden frame, and is heavy, which is why I would not wish to post it, Visitors are welcome to come and view it...
Lynda Stevens
Original Mixed Media, 1990
73 x 65 cm (28.7 x 25.6 inches)
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Artist Statement

I see my creative path as being one with no absolute destination – the process of creation is as important to me as the result.

In my work I often like to explore the tensions between chaos and form – and how chaos can break up stagnant forms into something more dynamic, or how form can bring beauty out of what was inchoate. Thus, sources of inspiration might include city encroaching on country and vice-versa, the dynamism of volcanoes, oceanic tides and so on. However, as the creative process for me mainly comes about via a process of psychic automatism, so that it is guided by an ebb and flow of subconscious impressions, both inner and outer landscapes tend to be superimposed upon each other in any given composition.

My pieces may be layered, worked and reworked again, so that an inner alchemical process runs through as a theme in all my works. This means that each piece is further altered and refined into something very different from what it might have been in the first place. I have sometimes used materials that might otherwise be perceived as rubbish – glass crystals from broken carsbuildings, gypsum, melted polystyrene and so on.

More recently, I have also used metal foil, geometrical shapes cut from older collages, clay in which patterns can be imprinted, and cracked paint. The layers of my works often represent memories encoded in newer and older layers, adding more and more complexity to each surface. The layers are also intended to create a sense of age or erosion within my larger pieces.

I especially prefer to work with translucent and reflective surfaces where the shimmer of gold, silver, copper or iridescent paints capture light, sometimes alongside glass andor beads. This interplay infuses my works, being interactive with the environment and the effects of light.

My abstract drawings are sequential in the way that a musical composition might be.

My life drawings seek a more accurate likeness of the model in terms of proportion and pose, whilst imbuing each image with my own, unique style.

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