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"Scratch, scratch, scratch with a pen. Every line comes from him. He is incredible." Irene Dodge, the owner of Elements Art Supplies remains awed by the detail and precision of Lyndon Tewksbury, a local artist whose work with lines and the abstract fills scores of canvases. His art filled the Original Fine Art Gallery, located within Elements, until late November, bringing a new dimension of talent to the art space. Each piece can be left to the imagination to find meaning behind it, but Lyndon admits every time he begins, he has a clear canvas in his mind. "I tend to try to leave my mind out of it and make a connection with my subconscious," he reveals. "[Carl] Jung called it ?the collective unconscious.' It's like an ocean in all of us." Connecting with his subconscious mind, he says, keeps him complete, and without consistently creating artwork, he is unfulfilled. While his mind is cleared and a new piece is in the works, it rarely enters his mind as a concrete idea before his hand begins laying out the premise before him. "I'm much more intuitive," Lyndon says as he muses over the prospect of contemplating art. "Things do not go through my mind as much as straight to art." His title given by the gallery is "Master of Line," a label Lyndon is unsure of.
"I think that is a joke because I talk about Thomas Kincaid a lot, and he is the Master of Light. It's nice, though."
He embraces the term "iconoclast," someone who hopes to deconstruct established order and religious symbolism. Instead, he looks towards his own personal heroes of art, generally those of the American Expressionism period, a backlash at the European affect on art. The influences for his style of artwork have come from a variety of sour ...