Lindy Lyman grew up overlooking the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, amongst birch trees with panoramas to the East and to the West.
Jack-In-The-Pulpits in the woods, and Sputnik in the heavens instilled in her a continuing sense of wonder which she shares with others through painting, sculpture, and music.
She believes, that as artwork reflects the infinite, we are lifted up amongst the stars — and simultaneously — we are connected more deeply with the planet beneath our feet.
Lindy Lyman portrays a world in which boundaries are illusions. Anything that visually separates or limits suggests a force that merges or transcends. Starting out as a painter, she developed an expression based in gradients,washes, and stains that are absorbed by raw canvas or linen. Giving herself over to a process involving fluidity and resistance, Lyman brought forth resonant effects both sensory and numinous. As her art changed over the years, she introduced line drawings, deliberate patterns, and recognizable forms silhouetted within spectrums of floating color, harmonic tinctures from celestial and terrestrial paint boxes. Departing from a purely abstract realm, her figuration includes forest life and galactic phenomena — from wee beasties to twinkling stars — to call up the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. Reminiscent of 17th-century mystical manuscripts, Lyman’s contemporary cosmology is populated by ancient symbols, modern technological wizardry, and talismanic words.