Heleen van Lynden studied at the Minerva Academy in Groningen from 1971-1974 and later trained under realist painters Berend Groen and Sam Drukker.

Initially established as a commission artist, Lynden felt restricted creatively by this line of work and soon began exploring her own individual style. To date, Lynden’s body of work encompasses a diverse number of genres, specialising in portraiture, still life and landscape.
 

Working in oil paints, her compositions employ loose brushwork and naturalistic colours to reflect the beauty of nature around her. Lynden’s spontaneous images are strongly influenced by her tendency to work outdoors, ‘en plein air.’ Her work captures fleeting, transitory moments in the often-changing light. Whether painting landscapes inspired by her native hometown of Muiderberg or the exotic vistas of Italy, Lynden’s works are unfailing studies in naturalistic light and colour. Her atmospheric seascapes test the conventions of scale and perspective in order to emphasise nature in all its temperamental glory.

“To make advantage of and master the light and the colour is an inexhaustible challenge.”

Lynden has been exhibiting steadily since 1994 in the Netherlands. She is now a teacher herself, and has been holding successful painting classes for the last 12 years.