Lynette Ten Krooden is often categorised as a “landscape artist.” This narrow definition, of this well-travelled and scholarly artist is perhaps too restrictive. Lynette’s works penetrate deeper than mere representations of landscape and become vehicles for her exploration of symbols and spiritual dwellings with a metaphysical quality. Twenty-five years of travel and research into fossil life, ancient civilisations, their petroglyphs and cultures has resulted in Lynette forming a universal mythology which she utilizes as a forum for discourse. Within this context, she often explores microscopic and macroscopic aspects of nature as a reflection of human communication with the earth, with each other and with their gods. The artist’s footprints stretch over the patterned lava rock of the Karoo to Petra and the Jordanian desert; Timbucto in Mali up to the Sahara desert and many more magical destinations. The exquisite use of textures, layers and a unique gold-leaf process …
