Studio B, Hotel Downstreet, Public Space

(The branch drawings were traced onto the white painted areas of 20 Following My Bliss drawings from 2008 to make entirely new drawings as seen in the introductory photograph of Following My Bliss Reprise 1-20, 2008-2026.)

My Artist Statement accompanying this show:

“I have created hundreds of works over 50 years.

The change in the work’s appearance depends on how I have exhausted a specific idea and want to move on to the next.

My work is essentially evidence of a conversation I have with the art elements I have created: methods of drawing; predilections for a certain kind of imagery; the use of a certain drawing implements; or variations within the surface of a piece of paper.

Generally, the subject matter of my work is always self-referential, even though one might view a recognizable image. It is how that image is treated and surrounded visually that matters and how forceful the message to the viewer becomes. 

One of my mentors said once: Art has no intrinsic value. To that I add: the value exists in how the artist’s mind creates the art and in how the viewer responds to it.

In 2025, twenty-one pieces in this show were returned to me from my gallery in Washington, DC. I believed in these pieces because it had taken all of 2008 to make them. I had imagined them being shown together in a large grid formation on one wall.

I wanted to rework them though so they could be brought into the present time but I did not know how.

Patricia invited me to join her in an exhibit in Studio B. We were sitting in her car one day and she was describing the kind of work she was doing which essentially brought abandoned scraps of material into new places using conventional and new methods. After she said this, I was convinced that I could do what I wanted to do with my own pieces: integrate an image derived from new work into the old 2008 drawings.

We decided on the title of the show, Kintsugi, to convey the idea that we were healing scattered, broken parts and broken time into another unified place, both literally and conceptually.”

copyright 2026 Lyn Horton