Kathryn Lynch Solo Exhibition with Huxley Parlour continues until 18th March
This spring, Kathryn Lynch presents Weather, a new body of paintings at Huxley-Parlour, London. Developed between 2024 and 2025, the works mark a quiet but decisive shift in Lynch’s practice, following her move from Brooklyn to upstate New York. While the paintings remain grounded in her long-standing engagement with perception, light and duration, they register a turning outward — from the compressed density of the city to a sustained attention to atmosphere, distance and change.
Lynch’s paintings do not depict landscape in any straightforward sense. Instead, they attend to conditions: tonal shifts, soft pressures of light, the way form emerges and recedes over time. Familiar elements — cloud, horizon, ground — appear only to dissolve again, held in balance by delicately layered brushwork. Space is shaped less by line than by modulation, allowing the surface of the painting to act as both image and environment.
There is a strong sense of duration in these works. Lynch’s method instinctive, relying on repeated acts of looking rather than fixed compositional plans. As she has noted, her paintings are “guttural” — formed through intuition and bodily response as much as observation. In Weather, this approach finds a clear analogue in the title itself: weather operates as a register of pressure and change, mirroring the internal rhythms that shape the act of painting.
The works draw subtle connections to American painting traditions without settling into any one lineage. There are echoes of the material restraint associated with Maine landscape painting, alongside the contemplative, light-driven atmospheres of the Transcendental Painting Group. Yet Lynch resists nostalgia or place-specific description. These paintings are not about where something is, but about how it is experienced — how light, memory and time accumulate into something shared and felt rather than seen outright.
Visitors familiar with Lynch’s recent residency at Colstoun House may recognise this sensitivity to place and duration, though here it is carried into a more open, less site-bound register. If the Scottish landscape prompted a heightened awareness of slow observation and weather systems, Weather extends that attentiveness into painting as lived condition: provisional, shifting, and resistant to narrative closure.
Weather opens with a reception on Thursday 5 March, 6–8pm, and runs until 18 April 2026 at Huxley-Parlour’s London gallery on Swallow Street.
Weather
Huxley-Parlour, London
6 March – 18 April 2026
