Artist Biography
Art has always been an important part of my life. It allows me to share my love and wonder of nature and life with others.
I have exhibited in New England in both solo and group shows, and have received numerous awards. My work is in many corporate, private, and non-profit collections in the U.S. and abroad.
I am a member of the: National Association of Women Artists (NAWA); The Art Connection; Monotype Guild of New England (MGNE); Nature Printing Society (NPS); Unbound Visual Arts (UVA); Brickbottom (BAA), Newton (NAA), North Shore (NSAA), and Rockport (RAA) Art Associations. I split my time between Newton and Rockport, MA.
For more information about my work – please visit my website www.lyndagoldberg.com, call 617.610.3943, or email me at lynda@lyndagoldberg.com. I also teach “Monotype Printing With a Press” at the New Art Center in Newtonville MA and I’d love to have you in my class.
Artist Statement
My monotypes (one-of-a-kind works on paper) focus on nature and my fascination with it. I start with an idea or feeling which I express in textures and colors using natural and manmade found objects. I am a tactile person, always touching things and feeling their texture. Because I am a printmaker I see an item’s potential by how it might appear after color and pressure have been applied.
I use leaves, grasses, ferns, seaweed, eggshells, metal objects, meshes, string and other items. These objects are themselves inked and placed on an inked plexiglass-glass plate, then a damp piece of paper is placed on top and the whole thing is run through a press.
My goal is to transmit my enthusiasm for the printmaking process and its creativeness to others – to have people see things in a textured and colorful way.
Her work is informed by nature. Whether working at the coast, in the colors of autumn, in the freshness of spring, or in the radiance of sunlight, she comes to know herself and her goals as an artist.
Her monotypes, oils, pastels, and watercolors focus on nature and her fascination with it.
For the “Olympic SPIRIT” exhibition, Lynda said “This spring as I was doing the spring cleaning in my garden I cut a huge mass of last summer’s tangled, dried out clematis vines. I was intrigued by the positive and negative spaces created by their interwovenness, their texture, movement,…… These monotypes, one-of-a-kind works on paper and I use an etching press, are the result. It was exciting and challenging to print with these vines. They kept moving in the printing process and breaking. I was constantly trying different approaches/strategies to get the affects I wanted – running the pieces several times through the press, sometimes incorporating different mediums, starting over,…. – all to make the prints successful, to achieve my goal.”
More generally, she says “My prints are one-of-a-kind; using monotype, monoprint, or collagraph techniques. I start with an idea or feeling which I express in textures and colors using natural and man-made found objects. I am a tactile person, always touching things and feeling their texture. Because I am a printmaker I see an item’s potential by how it might appear after color and pressure have been applied. When possible, I apply paint to both sides of an object and use it in different ways in several prints. For example: I print the original print, then use the “ghosted” plate, I also use the “other side of the object”, and use the “ghost of the ghost” if there is enough color/texture left, etc. It is the unlimited possibilities and uncertainty of what exactly will appear (in addition to the image being the reverse of what one worked on) that makes the monotype process so exciting. Each print is unique and the result of an adventure. My goal is to transmit my enthusiasm for the printmaking process and its creativeness to others – to get people to see in a textured and colorful way, natural and man-made objects”. Her personal artist website is www.lyndagoldberg.com.
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