Artist’s Inspiration

“The balance between the artists’ emotions and intellect, conscious and unconscious, adult and child self, determines the substance of my work.”

Full of wonder, there is a painter’s alchemy at work in Linnekin’s art. Tellingly, she explores the duality and polarity inherent in developing a sophisticated, knowing, and contemporary paint-handling as expressed through the reinvention and evolution on an ancient alphabet of runes and marks and graffito musings. These ruminations reveal Linnekin’s innermost self and, in there unnerving intensity, expose us to ourselves.

“My work reflects the enthusiasm and basic optimism that are the rock core of my nature and beliefs. I am interested in the relationship between paint and surface, color and line, abstraction and image. Each painting strikes its own formal balance….and each tells its own story.”

The marks embodying such positive thinking and the reflective/reflexive images they make are the essence of visual expression. They are incantations in paint, and they created maps to the promising places where treasures are kept in the heart and cherished in the soul. This is a good-faith kind of painting where the density of the layered and staged images is an analog to courage and manifests itself with an authenticity that comes of commitment and conviction.

“I start with an idea that often dies in the house of the work, but in dying gives birth to a new thought. The painting begins to ‘talk’, taking on a life of its own.”

So it goes in the life and death cycle. The artist affirms the positive values in renewal and regeneration. In a time that is ever more disdainful and callous to genuine openness and sensitivity, the artist must persevere. It is a difficult and perilous duty-evidence of a culture doing what needs to be done-making the way so that others may follow. Linnekin’s paintings show us the way.