Linda Felcey

‘Capturing the familiar and fugitive, my work explores the sense and suggestion of the passage of time; the rapture of fleeting reality, a moment of being. The sense of extraordinary awareness of being. Each painting is connected to a particular season – the cast of light, the gestures of a falling leaf, a quivering bloom, a bird alighting on the edge of a bowl - leaving subtle and sometimes exuberant traces that impart the transient beauty and perishableness of life. The solid vessels that contain the mutable moment where time is visible but not arrested, are imbued with their own stories captured in chips, cracks or a lost maker’s mark; warm and worn from holding. What emerges in the quiet space between those things is a wonderful consolation for our inconsolable longing for life; an intimation of delight, instants of blurring and becoming.’

Linda works in a shepherd’s hut on the edge of Glynde, East Sussex and draws inspiration from the natural world around her. Observation and painting of her subject outdoors is followed by contemplation and experimentation in the studio. Her medium is oil on linen and she also makes etchings using copper plates, often printing with chine collé and weathered papers. Some of her works are influenced by the mystical works of Bohemian-Austrian lyrical poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926). Linda was born in Lincolnshire and studied Fine Art at Grimsby School of Art and at Kingston University. ‘Linda’s work comes from an intimate relationship with the natural world, from a distinct and respectful way of life in deep conversation with her surroundings, from close observation and quiet contemplation. Each piece is intricate, layered and luminous, capturing the elusive qualities of place, of shifting light and atmosphere, reflecting our relationship with the transient seasons and the ever-changing weather in Sussex. Her work reminds us to pay attention to what exists in the margins - the hedgerows and little used paths of our landscape and awareness.’ (Louisa Thomsen Brits).