March - Where I Live

 From his old motorbike and sidecar, James Lynch started his career in the mid-70s as an artist by knocking on doors and offering commissions to anyone happy to hand over some money for a painting of their house.

Since then, James has gone onto become one of the UK’s leading landscape artists, and the countryside around his Somerset home has become a constant source of inspiration.
From his studio he enjoys views across the Somerset levels, the Polden Hills and on towards Glastonbury – an unchanged landscape and one worthy of egg tempera, a centuries-old painting technique that makes good use of one of nature’s little miracles…