Ros Lymer: Lasting Impression

About

Ros Lymer uses colour, shape and texture to create balance and harmony, continuously layering media and marks to create a rich, dense surface. Working with paint, collage, print and textiles, Ros works in her home studio in Brighton. 

Ros's paintings often relate to observed and imagined shapes and forms around her in the landscape, or to objects found in woods or by the sea; shells, stones, roots, or shadows and gaps. Lines of fence posts, stubbly marks of cut crops or cracks in cliff faces and walls have all provided inspiration. At times her works are completely abstract, using colour, shape and texture to create balance and harmony. In some works, Ros includes a collage ground to provide texture, or the hint of an obscured image. 

In her textiles work, Ros examines textures, colours and surfaces which she encounters in everyday life. She is niterested in captured moments in fragments of fabric, repeated marks, boxes of old photos and discarded objects. Strips of colour and texture, with overlayed stitched marks ecgho her approach to painting and mixed media. Ros loves the process of collecting and re-using, both renacting remembered impressions, and creating imagined histories or stories.