Women Talking: Paintings by Janet Lynch and poetry by Ellen Phethean

Women Talking

13^th Sept to 5^th Oct    1 1.00 4.00pm.

Private view 4 pm Tuesday Sept 24^th

The private view to which all are invited will take the form of a public discussion between Ellen and myself about all the important things in life, love, art, creativity and trying to juggle it all. Ellen will read some of her poetry, and tea will be served (and I hope cake).

Poet Ellen Phethean chose some of my paintings as a starting point for poems which now appear in her book ‘Woman Talking’. Some of the paintings were done many years ago. Most have never been seen outside the studio. We put a show together before lockdown which was to go to Newcastle where Ellen lives. It had to be cancelled but this new show, with some extra paintings added, has been created, curated by Miranda Leonard of Restless Gallery.

For more information: www.janetlynch.com

Image: The Fisherman’s Wife

From the Tremenheere website www.tremenheere.co.uk:

‘…Ellen is a life-long writer with a distinct voice. In her recent book Portrait of the Quince as an Older Woman, Ellen wrote about her life in a world made alien with loss and absence. She acknowledges aging but also the pleasure of grandchildren and the recompenses of writing. Her poems explore the older woman’s place in contemporary culture. Shedding the Niceties published last year is reviewed as a collection of ’rambunctious poems that insist on finding their own way home in the dark’.

Janet Lynch, now 84, is a painter whose work is full of life that genuinely springs forth from her brush, this current way of working represents a new way of approaching her creativity.

These two artists have much to discuss through their correspondence of paintings and poems…