Open through most of June 2024 at the Kondor Art Club, a part of Hermes Kondor’s Kondor Art Centre, is a solo exhibition by JudiLynn India which again demonstrates her extraordinary acrylic art, here given a digital edge through the considered use of post-processing via Procreate, a raster graphics editor developed for devices using Apple’s iOS and iPadOS.
JudiLynn has expressed a love of art and artistic expression for most of her life, studying the subject at both school and university, whilst also learning to play the piano, guitar and violin. Her art has always been a personal journey, one encompassing her outlook on life, her spirituality and her personality – which might be describes as vibrant, passionate and fuelled by a desire to create and explore. This latter aspect of her creativity has, over the last two decades, encouraged her to combining her love of acrylic painting with a growing appreciation of the potential presented by digital painting software and techniques.
All of this is fully displayed within Messages at the Kondor Art Club.
Occupying the full gallery space, this collection of some 40 digitally-enhanced, acrylic originals carries within it a familiar sense of the abstract and the natural – aspects of Judi’s work I have always enjoyed.
Each of the compositions offered is described as a spiritual adventure for the artist; something perhaps most clearly seen in the pieces carrying one or more circles within them – a motif, perhaps of the spirit’s enduring nature, and symbolising unending cycles – the embodiment of the alpha and the omega, if you will.
The use of the the circle is not the only symbol or motif to be found within these pieces; many include representations of writing. That the words /letters / symbols might be indecipherable makes no difference, their inclusion not only reflects the title of the the collection, they serve as a reminder that starting with art – in the form of simple paintings – and progressing to use of symbols, hieroglyphs and eventually the written word, we are a race of creatives (and in “written” I would also include the use of music, through its notations and interpretation, as both a means to communicate and to express ourselves), and also archivists; recording what we see, learn, love and cherish for both our out pleasure / knowledge and for those who will inevitably follow us.
In this Messages might be said to be an essay in art, a celebration of life, of humanity, nature and all that makes us individually and collectively unique. And like is, each of the compositions within this collection work collectively, each one adding its own lines to the exhibition’s narrative; yet at the same time each is unique and within its own voice, capable of standing on its own, ready to be appreciated just as richly on that basis as for any connection to the rest of the collection.
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- Kondor Art Club, Kondor Art Centre (Royal Tea, rated Adult)
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