KATHLEEN HYNDMAN (b.1928) A Retrospective
7 February - 24 February 2018
ZULEIKA GALLERY 3rd Floor 6 Masons Yard St James’s London SW1Y 6BU
Cover Image: Early Excursion, 1993
KATHLEEN HYNDMAN
Tangent: Opposing Flows, 1992
Zuleika Gallery is pleased to present this exhibition of visual mathematics by the artist Kathleen Hyndman. This body of work represents a career spanning over fifty years of painting and exhibiting internationally and is a celebration of the artist as she reaches her 90th year. Born in Brentwood Essex in 1928, Hyndman has lived for the past fifty years in Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire where she works in her garden studio. Hyndman trained at Kingston-on-Thames School of Art and has been exhibiting widely since the 1970s. Highlights of her career include exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford in 1972 as part of the touring Arts exhibition for Southern Arts Bursary winners. That exhibition also travelled to Swindon, Reading and Winchester galleries. Hyndman was included at the Hayward Annual in 1982 at the Hayward Art Gallery London, and the 80s and 90s saw her work included in exhibitions in Germany, Poland, France and South Africa. In 2000 she was awarded a Millennium Fellowship and her work has been featured in exhibitions on international abstract art in the Netherlands. Kathleen Hyndman's work explores arithmetical sequences and geometry as a means of distributing motifs, shapes and colours. Golden section proportions and angles, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers and eccentric constructions are used. Parallels to the work of Op-Artist Bridget Riley can be drawn in Hyndman’s interest in colour, repetition and the impact of visual patterns. Hyndman’s work is a relentless and unapologetic exploration of the interrelation between mathematics and art: one idea can develop into an entire series of work - each painting sees the artist searching for the absolute or ‘truth’. Hyndman aims to achieve a calm and balanced unity in her work with no false move in colour, tone or value.
Kathleen Hyndman 25 Colour Combinations, 1986 acrylic on canvas 64.8 x 74.9 cm £ 3,000
Kathleen Hyndman Rolling Sun and Cloud, 1978 acrylic on canvas 46.5 x 88.5 cm £ 7,000
Kathleen Hyndman Water Garden, 1978 acrylic on canvas 55 x 33 cm £ 6,000
Kathleen Hyndman Tree Attracting Sunshine, 1983 acrylic on canvas 73.7 x 102.1 cm £ 4,000
Kathleen Hyndman Early Excursion, 1993 acrylic on canvas 93.3 x 132.1 cm £ 7,000
Kathleen Hyndman India, 2001 acrylic on canvas 83.2 x 147.3 cm £ 6,000
Kathleen Hyndman Six Discontinuous and One Continuous Green Line, 1985 acrylic on canvas 106.7 x 106.7 cm £ 3,000
Kathleen Hyndman Rain, Mist and Sun, Gorge de la Gent Series, 1984 acrylic on canvas 82.3 x 113.7 cm £ 4,000
Kathleen Hyndman Rain Mist and Sun, 1984 acrylic on canvas 82.3 x 113.7 cm £ 4,000
Kathleen Hyndman Tangent: Opposing Flows, 1992 acrylic on canvas 106.7 x 156.9 cm £ 6,000
Kathleen Hyndman Birds Turning (Prime Number Series), 1988 acrylic on paper laid on board 40 x 40.5 cm ÂŁ 2,000
Kathleen Hyndman Counterpoint, 1973 acrylic on canvas 85.1 x 115.9 cm £ 6,000