Award-winning Canadian artist Lynda Pogue combines a deep personal passion with all the emotionality and energy that she perceives in the world to create bold representational and abstract paintings that are both strikingly evocative and deeply profound. Drawing on a diverse background in teaching, keynote speaking, and writing, painting has become but one of the mediums she uses to tell her stories. Her technique is unique, mixing a variety of media in order to create works featuring vibrant interplays of color and texture. As Pogue explains, “I’m in love with the immediacy of both encaustic (wax) and water-based media. They both force me to ‘be in the moment’ like nothing else I know. They place me in a surreal, totally responsive mode.”
What results are vistas of pure expressionism, bold brushstrokes of color combined with weighty textures that stir our deepest yearnings and hint at the emotions that lie at our very core. Compositions are primarily abstract and infused with patterns of light and shadow, with a hint of geometric form. Her chosen hues, too, are bold and riveting, yet somehow intermix to create a sense of harmony and purpose.
As with her books and her speeches, Pogue intends for her art to empower. “When a viewer stands before a piece of my work, I want something visceral to happen to them.” It is this intent, this driving force, that makes Pogue’s canvases so compelling, and keeps viewers always coming back for more.
Lynda Pogue currently lives and works near Toronto, Canada.
