About

Lucinda Lynch is an innovative mixed media artist who has resided in the Santa Fe area for over 15 years. She has incorporated international travel into artist residencies and technique workshops enriching her scope and style.

She recently completed a one-month residency in Cadiz, Spain after being awarded a fully equipped art studio overlooking the sea in the Santa Catalina Castle compound.

The first of her combined artistic travels began in 1984 when she joined a brigade of San
Francisco artists that traveled to Nicaragua to support the revolution. During her two-week
tour, Lucinda painted plein air watercolors of the people in the countryside. The artwork of
the 15 artists as well as Nicaraguan artists they met was compiled into a booklet called Inside
the Volcano.

In 1991, Lucinda completed her BFA degree at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. One of her works she constructed for early art history that she named The Goddess Box.

During her studies and shortly after she completed a portfolio of illustrations and

wrote two children’s books.

One of the books she wrote and illustrated was about a young Bolivian girl who herded alpacas
and llamas. It was called Travels with Juanita. This idea of writing a children’s adventure story came to Lucinda after she visited her husband’s family in Bolivia with her small son.

In 1995, Lucinda moved to northern New Mexico with her son and constructed a passive solar house that she designed.

After sculpting the walls and floors out of adobe she felt inspired to start creating sculptures and learn stone carving.

She signed up with a monthlong marble carving workshop in Pietrasanta, Italy, where she
roughed out two sculptures with the assistance of professional Italian artisans.

She continued stone carving at Santa Fe Community College and bronze casting at Highlands University.

During this time she started painting a series of emotional mixed media paintings that became part of a one-woman show called “Seeing Red”.

Part of this series expressed her concern for the destruction caused by what seemed to her as endless wars.

After her one-woman show Lucinda traveled to India and studied yoga for a month in an ashram in Nasik, India.

Around this time she painted what she considered to be the human dilemma in a Samsara series.

In her “Receding Earth” series created from 2006 -2008, Lucinda carved holes out of layered panels. In this body of work the holes represent loss, i.e.,loss of pristineness, global species, and sustainability.

The painting “Oxidized” featured here depicts these ideas.

In 2009 Lucinda began using the symbol of dual heads as a vehicle to express longing, desire,mutual understanding, love or disharmony in relationships. Along with this is the exploration of duality and the contradictory sides of ourselves.

The painting “Strain” bridges the style of the “Receding Earth” series with similar cutouts of the panels.

Presently she is working on a new series of paintings and wallsculptures that are inspired
from her experiences in Cadiz,Spain.