Lin Schmidt

Just a quick note to mention a little of what I have been doing.

2 shows coming up, a big one in Galerie 88, a beautiful gallery in Bagnères de Bigorre.  I will be the featured artist there and am also showing chosen work from Robert Boutiq, my soul-mate. We haven't shown together since his death, but his work is still part of my present. more info on the next a bit later

have only just activated the print service and haven't had time to upload all in quality images, please contact me before ordering if I haven't done it yet, thanks

I've created a new blog which will be updated much more often, I can't keep everything up to date, sorry!

It's here :

linschmidt.wordpress.com/

So far I have had several interesting contacts, from Italy and Spain as well as good contacts with other painters.

Lin Schmidt born in 1952 near Chicago

lives and works in Tarbes (Hautes Pyrénées)

After a mid-western childhood, playing in cornfields and old barns she studied fine art and psychology, first in the United States and then in Paris where she received her BFA in 1974. After oscillating between the States and Europe for several years she settled down in France in 1980. From that time to 2002 she participated in many group and individual exhibitions.

In 2003 after the loss of her husband, who was also a painter, and faced with the necessity of moving, she had neither the time nor the heart to show her work, but continued drawing. She re-established her studio in 2007 and has begun to show her work to the public.


INDIVIDUAL SHOWS

1997 Mar Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Mourenx
1995 Jun Galerie Zeller, Tarbes
1991 Jun Galerie Zeller, Tarbes

GROUP SHOWS

2000 Nov Centre Dickenson, Toulouse
2000 Jun St. Cyprien en Périgord, St. Cyprien
1996 Jun. Lo Specchio e la Mappa: Percorsi tra Figurativo e Informale, Catania, Sicile
1996 Feb La journée de la Femme, Le Parvis, Ibos
1993 Mar Espace Elf-Aquitaine, Lacq
1990 Mar with R. Boutiq, La Galerie d’Art, Mourenx
1988 Jun Château de Lavardens, Lavardens (Gers)
1988 Jan Unité d’Arts Plastiques, Montpellier
1987 Feb Galerie Zeller, Tarbes
1986 May Espace Potiers, Toulouse
1985 Mar Du Côté de Lautréamont, Le Parvis, Ibos
1983 Aug Peintures d’ici Mayntenant, Le Parvis, Ibos
1982 Feb with R. Boutiq, La Galerie, Tarbes
1982 Jun Hospitalet, Barèges
1978 Mar 8 x 10 Show, West Hubbard Street Gallery, Chicago


PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Two works were bought by the city of Mourenx, France.
Private collections in the USA, France, and the Netherlands

- a little more on the way

1970/74 Studies in Fine Art and Psychology (especially Jung and Laing)
Strongly influenced by a variety of painters: Jackson Pollack, Georgia
O’Keefe Robert Rauschenberg, et Jasper Johns, while studying in the States. Then deeply moved by Giotto, Fra Angelico, and so many others seen in Europe.

1975/76 Travel in the USA and in Europe on bicycle. Visited the great museums of
Europe.
1977/79 Return to Chicago to work for the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) –
Met different artists: Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman,
Phil Berkman...
Participated in a cooperative gallery in Chicago.

1979/80 Went to Bordeaux to study Chinese and to continue her research on the “I
Ching”.
Met the painter R. Boutiq and moved to Tarbes to devote herself completely to painting.

1983 The first series of paintings on the “I Ching”.
1986 Evolution towards the “structures” – dialog of painting/sculpture.
1987 Began teaching tai chi chuan. (a Chinese martial art)
1988 Moved to Louit, a small village in les Hautes-Pyrénées.
1990 Shared an exhibition with R Boutiq in Mourenx.
1991/93 Incorporating text as a material: texture and presence in meaning,
the poetry of Li Po, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot...
1995 Began using the encaustic technique of painting.
1995/98 Began developing the themes: messenger, door, window, spiral…
1999/02 Started to work on the theme of "bu", or consulting the oracle, as well as
continuing the other themes.
2002/03 She assists R. Boutiq, painter and her soul-mate, in the end of his life.
Totally empty.

2004/05 Moved back to Tarbes.
2006/07 Progressively returned to her work in painting.
2008 Began to show her work again.

Perhaps a way of leaving marks where we have been, to know more where we are going.
But because we are on a path, and everything we do has its importance, it’s important for me to carefully choose the materials I use. Painting is not just a question of an image, which is perceived by the eye and analyzed by the mind. There are more subtle interactions. The whole body is capable of perception. This explains why we feel attraction for something or someone. Or why in some environments we can experience uneasiness or on the contrary well-being and comfort. Because the material world is composed of vibration, the very structure, composition, and surface of the work influence how we interact with it.

I do not produce works that make social statements. I prefer to create works that will give something to the perceiver. Be it an idea or sense of calm or simply a good feeling. Like Beuys, I feel that art has a mission of healing, and that is what we are here for.

After experimenting with all sorts of traditional techniques, from oils, acrylics, watercolors etc., I have developed my own preferred “cuisine”. I use the technique that appeals to me at a particular moment. I most often use paper, in various forms from sheets to woven strips to paper maché, with pigments, ashes, plant fibers and resins or other binders such as beeswax on paper, wood or canvas or a combination of the 3. I also use traditional encaustic paints, which are a blend of pigments, Damar resin and beeswax applied to a surface using heat. Or sometimes just brush and India ink or watercolor…

For the banana bird series I invite you to visit my website at html/banane.html
Where I have a brief description of the process along with photos, or view it from the beginning at (be attentive, it’s not easy to get there!):
html/third.html

There will be 3 works showing at the country club (Le Golfe) of Bagnères de Bigorre, France, fromm 29th April to mid-June, 2010.

During the entire jazz festival, that is from 31 July 2009 to 16 August, not far from the central square and la Galerie à l'Ane Bleu

A show of both recent and less recent works, in a beautiful setting in the Gers.

affiche pour expo solo au Musée Larrey du 17 mai au 29 juin 2013

A group show in an old mill in Southwest France.
Lots of great artwork

December 2011

Two articles (in French) from La Depêche and de La Nouvelle République on the recent shows of Lin Schmidt in Tarbes.