Rob Lyon
Lanchashire, UK, 1982
About
Lives and works in Sussex, UK
Since 2014, Rob Lyon has been painting the unique landscape of the South Downs in England where he grew up and later returned to raise his family. Inspired by long walks amongst its distinct ridges of wooded rolling hills and valleys, dramatic skies, and sweeping vistas, the artist works methodically and meditatively to capture and inscribe the unique spirits encountered there.
Common motifs of birds, hills, trees, and other foliage, depicted in expressive colors, strong lines, and patterned brushstrokes, assemble on the canvas in simplified forms, repeating and reassembling, held in harmonic tension as though briefly caught between moments of entropic flux. Various combinations of dots, lines, and shapes create a graphic language that is sometimes consistent, but often not.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
New Landscapes, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
I have done it again. / One year in every ten / I manage it——, Adams and Ollman, Portland, US, 2023
Pursuit, Adams and Ollman, Portland, US, 2022
Amongst the Chaos, Wondering People, London, UK, 2021
Fairground, Gallery 94, Glyndebourne, UK, 2020
Coronavisions, Blakefest 2020, Bognor Regis, UK, 2020
Ghosts that Live Among Us, Warbling Collective, London, UK, 2020
Dandelion Vision, Blakefest 2017, Bognor Regis, UK, 2017
