Papillon de Pythagore (2010) Painting by Lin Schmidt

- a little more on the way

1970/74Studies 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.

1975/76Travel in the USA and in Europe on bicycle. Visited the great museums of
Europe.
1977/79Return 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.

1979/80Went 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.

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

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

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1952
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists