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​"I LOVE STRAIGHT FORWARD PEOPLE,

MAKES LIFE TEN TIMES EASIER."

 

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​MY WORK

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LYNDA WYLDE

Artist Biography

 

I am originally from Alberta. I was born in 1965. My family moved out to BC when I was 9 years old.

I have been living in the White Rock area since 2002.

 

When I was a kid. I was always hungry to create. Creating just about anything, meant more to me than making friends. I was a happy kid and a bit of a loner.

I was a tomboy, catching frogs, by day and a young socialite by night. My mother worked downtown Calgary, and our babysitter would bring my sisters and I to meet her for dinner at glamorous 1970's dinner clubs. I loved the big bands!

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As a young girl, I loved the outdoors and I had a lot of freedom to go exploring. On one of my expeditions, I found a stream that was lined with clay. I dug up the clay and brought it home. I made my creations and let them bake in the sun. I later painted them and gave them as gifts. I carved, painted or sewed just about anything I could get my hands on. I saw a pile of firewood as a beautiful pile of “stuff” to create with! I created many miniature rooms with that firewood. I made furniture, appliances, stairs, etc.. My little rooms had carpets, drapes, art, and electricity.

 

I started painting in oils when I was 12 yrs old. My aunt was a painter and she gave me my first set of paints. I bought my first camera when I was 17. I love black and white photography, and learned to develop my own negatives and photos, in borrowed dark rooms. When I was 17 years old, I started a career in the commercial printing industry. I ran a press, did platemaking and film stripping, as well as, process camera work. Afterwards, I went into graphic art and learned to be a typesetter.

 

Later, I had a home-based business as a painter and printmaker for many years. I did screen printing, I wrote poetry and published it. I taught myself how to carve linoleum and made linocuts. When I gathered three lead-type proof presses, I learned to set lead-type.  Then I converted my proof presses to print my linocuts onto journal covers and sold journals to the gift market. 

 

The subject matter of my paintings has been literally "Scenes from my Dreams". My dreamtime is so vivid, strange, and wonderful that I can't resist painting them! Now in 2021 I am expanding into more abstract paintings,... with a twist!


 

-Lynda Wylde audacious creative.

 

 

South Surrey White Rock Artist Lynda Wylde

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