Lyndy Wilson - Contemporary painter

Mandy Jakich
Feb 19
2 min read

Lyndy Wilson is a contemporary New Zealand painter of Tainui descent. She grew up and still lives in the small town of Ngāruawāhia surrounded by the Waikato and Waipā rivers and the majestic Hakarimata ranges, a constant source of inspiration.

Her style can be described as diverse, eclectic and ever evolving which allows her the freedom to explore different subjects such as floral and botanical, abstract, landscape and more recently figurative.

Growing up in Ngaruawahia Lyndy was immersed in Maori culture. Annual regattas At Turangawaewae Marae were always a huge event for the town and a way to celebrate and show pride in their rich heritage. Lyndy has early memories gathering flax with her Grandmother and sitting watching her great Aunties weave. Hangis at Christmas with the extended family were well loved ..these early memories inform some of her figurative work.

In this episode Lyndy talks about studying at The Learning Connexion art school in Wellington, how she manages painting three different genres in her art practice and what inspires each genre, the ways she processes her own emotions through her paintings, her fascination for "the dark side", what she does with her 'failed' paintings and the great story behind her finalist work for the National Contemporary Art Award "Tell Me You Like It Anyway". She opens up about self doubt and learning to handle that, building community, her experimenting Fridays and her tongue in cheek plan for starting up a "husbands of artists support group".

Thank you to Lyndy for joining me on CC. And thank you as always to my faithful listeners and supporters - I have mentioned this before, and to be truthful I am not that comfortable asking for financial support, but we do have a little donation scheme which is linked in our Instagram profile, where you can set up a monthly automatic donation of $3, $5, $8 or $10 and cancel any time. It's super straight forward to set up and helps hugely with the running costs of producing the podcast. Every cent helps!

Now on to my chat with Lyndy - enjoy.