John Lincoln

Nature and natural form have long been the primary sources for my paintings.  By means of observation and intuition coupled with imagination and continuing experimentation I have, over the years, produced a diverse mix of imagery employing the textures of trees, grasses and water, flowers and other botanical forms.

These contemporary paintings of nature in art include images of trees, flowers and birds as symbols of magic and spirituality in the English countryside and garden.

I live at the edge of the Fens in south Lincolnshire.  These flatlands are characterised by big skies and a multi-coloured landscape of intensively farmed fields bounded by deep ditches and channeled rivers trimmed with blood-red poppies and pink campions, reed mace and bindweed, along the high banks and low washes.

To the west of me are the slopes of a limestone escarpment quite different in character to the Fens.  Here are stone-built towns and villages with histories going back millennia, where the spirit of place is imbued with the lives of the Celts, Romans, Saxons and all who came after.  They are still with us, in the landscape, the hedges and fields and those sacred sites now surmounted by Christian churches in proud defiance of a pagan past.

It is this sense of history, spirit and place that informs most of what I paint.