The artist is known for her atmospheric use of the ancient egg tempera painting technique that she(Image removed) learnt at the Royal Academy Schools. “I was greatly influenced by a trip to Italy where I studied the works of Italian Renaissance masters such as Piero Della Francesca. His painting ‘The Baptism of Christ’ is in egg tempera.”
Tempera is an emulsion of egg yolk and distilled water and is mixed with mulled raw pigment. It has been used from as early as the 1st century AD and was the primary method of painting up until the 1500s when oil painting became the preferred technique for artists. “The egg emulsion is painted onto a hand prepared gesso board. Gesso is made from glue size and chalk whiting all heated up on a stove to the consistency of Yorkshire pudding mixture,” Stage explains. Several layers are left to dry before being sanded and sealed with a final layer of glue size. All work on display will be available to purchase including ‘Verbena in Sunlight’.
Lynne Strover Gallery, now in its 27th year, is widely regarded as the best commercial art gallery in Cambridge. The gallery is both home and workplace for owner Lynne Strover, who has deftly created an exhibition space that is at once spacious and airy and yet homely and familiar. It is very much in the spirit of Jim Ede’s Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, which remains to true to his vision of showing modern art in an attractive and comfortable domestic setting.
Lynne Strover Gallery
23 High Street, Fen Ditton
Cambridge CB5 8ST
Tel: + 44 (0)1223 295264
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