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Linda Newman Boughton
Yield and Overcome (Landscape Drawing of Forest in Archival Blue Ballpoint Pen)

2022

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Linda Newman Boughton, Yield and Overcome, 2022 Framed dimensions: 59.5 x 47.5 inches / Image dimensions: 58.5 x 46.5 inches Landscape drawing of trees in ballpoint pen on Arches paper, framed in custom wooden frame with gold interior, non-reflective museum glass To create the drawings in her latest series, Newman Boughton begins by taking reference photographs. On walks and drives through the wilderness with her camera in tow, the artist forages for moments of communion between light and nature. “I love taking photographs,” she said. “It’s my therapy, my church, going into the woods.” As with her drawings, these images take trees as their primary muse; however, her process of translating the photographs into drawings is not exactly reproductive. Rather than overwhelming the viewer with a uniform density throughout the picture plane, Newman Boughton isolates particular elements of forestry in negative space. In doing so, she wields greater control over the composition, accentuating the shapes that most succinctly articulate her inner story. This aesthetic choice is particularly well-suited to Newman Boughton’s favored medium. Placed in juxtaposition to the intrinsic nothingness of blank paper, each blue mark becomes an electrically charged filament. In some areas, these lines are concentrated to constitute dimensional forms with light and shadow; here is the drawing’s visual weight, though the denseness registers not as heft but organic vitality. Pure energy emanates from the base of every tree in I Need You (2023), for example, but this energy tapers off as the trunks stretch toward the heavens. Importantly, Newman Boughton drops clues that the trees exist as solid forms even where they are sparsely illustrated, leaving the viewer to project an abstracted meaning onto her omissions. In other works, like Yield and Overcome (2023), the balance of positive and negative space is suggestive of human perception. An absence of visual information expands in a radial gradient whose central point is at the top left corner of the drawing, making the viewer feel as though their sight has been compromised by sunlight piercing through the trees. Beyond the glare simulated by this omission, herbage and overgrowth commingle in shades of darkened blue. About the artist: Linda Newman Boughton creates baroque drawings entirely with ballpoint pens as her medium. To create depictions of untouched forests, the artist references her own photographs taken during long walks in the woods. The drawings are loose and gestural and intricate all at the same time from multiple layers of kinetic and contained lines forming the landscape.The energy of the layered lines conveys the life force and spiritual contact she feels while walking in nature. Boughton's passion for drawing started as a child teaching herself to draw from watching her grandmother draw and paint. She later took her drawing skills to The Fashion Institute of Technology in NY where she graduated cum laude in Fashion Illustration. A love of acting and design ultimately steered her to Hollywood where she began painting sets and murals for TV and film but ultimately created portraits and fine art reproductions for top shows and movies like: Water for Elephants, Fight Club and Nightmare on Elm Street VII, to name a few. Several of her first ballpoint pen landscapes are part of the prestigious Stuart and Lynda Resnik private collection and her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Florida, The Chautauqua Institute in NY and The Carrie Haddad Gallery since 2014.
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