Things won’t turn out the way you expect (and we’re completely out of our trees)

Artist Statement by Lynn Yaw Boling

After all, this is a Spring Show because there is certainly a lot of pink. But Spring doesn’t last forever, it’s not all hearts and flowers, sweetness and light. ‘April is the cruellest month’, Persephone personifies spring flowering and rebirth yet is also the queen of darkness and death.

With the law of the similar, if like cures like, I want change and uncertainty to be a creative force and strength in an unstable fragile and shifting world. Everybody has heard the cliché of not knowing which side is up of an abstract non-representational painting. In my case the cliché is not limited to abstract paintings. For example, the diptych Return of Persephone could just as easily be hung turned over – there is no wrong way when both work equally well. I also work on each panel of the diptych separately in different orientations so each time I change the order or the orientation different forces and accidental images are brought into play – but in a non-seamless way where each part remains evident. Of course each new and different order has to work together, but as a momentary, not permanent resting place that reveals new involuntary gestalt imagery forcing me to think in a new way. By letting you see the shifting layers of pentimenti, erasures and corrections I invite you to participate in the making.