Lynda Pogue in her studio An artist of irrepressible energy, Lynda Pogue creates her pieces with an expertise and verve that imbues her paintings with tremendous force.  Working primarily with both encaustic and water-based media, she relishes the speed with which these media force her to work. It means the pieces develop intuitively on the canvas and the expression is truer, more spontaneous, without the ponderous meanderings and tangents that come with over-contemplation of most kinds of emotional output.  The physicality of the materials feeds heavily into the painting experience, and a large part of creating a work is preparation of paints, tools
and surfaces. Pogue feels a connection to her materials, an empathy for them, a tactile relish – it is this that allows her to work fluidly and mix media on canvas in a way that supports the strengths of each material.

Working with mixed media, including acrylic and encaustic, Pogue’s combination of dynamic surface texture with subtle gradations of intense color, which glows from within, make her work intensely effective.  Her technique produces dramatic plays of light and tone, giving the works tremendous depth.  The radiating atmosphere created lends her paintings a subtlety and emotional openness that allows the viewer to connect directly to the painting.  Pogue wants her viewers to react to the work on a visceral
level, capturing that immediate ‘wow!’ factor that makes her pieces stand out. The directness of creation encapsulates a directness of expression, that is, when showing another person one of her paintings, Pogue stands exposed and vulnerable, the entirety of her expression laid bare for them to read in the painting.

She reveals that this is now that powerful moment between the artist and the viewer... an
intangible thing.

Lynda Pogue is a motivational speaker and writer as well as an accomplished artist on a continual quest to create fresh ways of expressing her original ideas.  She lives and works just outside Toronto, Canada.

www.lyndapogue.com

www.coventgarden.ca/lynda/lynda.htm

www.Agora-Gallery.com/ArtistPage/Lynda_Pogue.aspx