ARTIST STATEMENT

My recent work touches on the polarities of creation and destruction. Symbolic of the light and shadow in us all and of the contradictions uncovered in the creative process; certainty and doubt, tension and release, fascination and ambivalence, play and skill, joy and despair, intense isolation and deep connection.

I am inspired by those whose lives manifest creation in any form, no matter the simplicity or the opulence, and in the observation of their creative endeavors I find an inspiring sense of hope, which represents for me the necessary balance to our astonishing capacity for destruction.

In the act of creating I choose to reside in hope and connection.

Lynne Bon de Veire, La Perriere, 2016

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lynne Bon de Veire (b.1956, Canberra, Australia) lives and works in La Perriere, France, where she has been a resident since 1999. Her work is exhibited in the annual Marche d’Art de La Perriere and is held in private collections in Sydney, Paris, London and Le Perche.

A self-taught artist, Bon de Veire commenced her artistic career as a government cartographer, an exacting visual discipline which led to subsequent careers in film animation and special effects for Hannah Barbara studios in Sydney and Burbank Film Studios in Manila, The Philippines. In 1976, at age 20, Bon de Veire won the Helena Rubenstein/Cleo Silk Fashion Design Award and a coveted apprenticeship in Rome with couturier Lancetti, before landing a job in textile design in Como, Italy.

Working between Australia, Italy, France and the UK over the course of three decades and taking painting and drawing tuition whenever the opportunity presented, in 2005 Bon de Veire made the decision to resume a full-time career as a painter. From her atelier/gallery in a converted seventeenth century former bakery, Bon de Veire works with traditional oil on canvas, charcoal, graphite and pastels.