Lyn Southworth Images

My Work Is My Sword and My Pillow

how it all started…and where we are now

In my mid-30s I started a new life, one which allowed me to explore being a visual artist. Forty-five years later, this website (the 4th or 5th one I’ve created to use as a worldwide portfolio) includes a selection of what those years have produced in the form of an archive, what I’m doing now, and how you can have originals and sometimes copies for your own purposes.

What I’ve discovered is that the images I’ve created have a life of their own after they leave the easel and are photographed and catalogued. They find new homes and applications AND they literally have a life of their own. All art — I don’t mean just mine — is a living thing, maybe even has vibrations like music, or chi, or some other fumbling wordage for something that has no words.

If you’ve ever bought a pot from a potter, jewelry from a maker, or clothes from a designer/sewer you might connect with my assertion. There’s something different, something alive and enlivening that comes with “the thing.”

It’s a delight after years in the studio to realize all those marks are dancing through the universe. This website will give you a taste. It will take a while to bring it all together. Come back often.

Lyn Southworth

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