08/08/2026
Mark Gladding has joined Art Angles, Long Stratton to celebrate the work of Lynette Gladding:
Lynnette Gladding studied Fine and Applied Art at Canterbury Christ Church University, graduating with a First-Class degree and Best Painter Prize. She moved to Norfolk a few months later to study for a Master’s degree at the Norwich University of the Arts.
Over the past ten years, her work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions at venues such as the Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury and the Lombard Gallery in Margate.
Having completed her Masters, Lynnette worked full-time as a professional artist.
When Lynnette went for a walk in the park or countryside, she was always looking out for skeleton leaves, wild grasses and flowers to use in making cyanotypes, a process which has become popular with artists as an alternative photographic art, partly because of the deep- Prussian blue tones and the hand-worked authentic feel.
Lynnette loved painting houses. The dwellings she selected to paint were places that she was drawn to because there was a desire to tell their stories … ‘If walls could talk.’
During her time at the NUA she discovered the joy and creative freedom of abstract art.
Starting a painting with a thought, memory, or feeling, she went on an adventure, unsure of what the outcome would be, responding to the process, medium and support.
Lynnette was inspired by the textures, patterns, and colours of the natural world.
Sadly, Lynnette was diagnosed with kidney disease and died in September 2025.
