after Thomas Hardy's book Under the Greenwood Tree by Tymn Lintell

About "after Thomas Hardy's book Under the Greenwood Tree"

by Tymn Lintell

About the artwork

Walk up through the woods above Thomas Hardy's childhood home and you'll find Rushy Pond, a magical mystery place that sits adjacent to Egdon Heath and the old Roman road to Dorchester in Dorset.

The convergence in my work isn't just technical; it's deeply emotional. Fifty years of creative cross-training meets twenty-five years of genuine place-based connection. When I envision light, it's informed by decades of working with photographers' lighting, but also by countless dawns watched from my studio window. When I compose, it's shaped by cinematic language but also by the natural compositions this landscape offers daily.

My multi-disciplinary background provides the technical vocabulary, but it's the felt experience that gives my work its irreplaceable signature. The satisfaction of buying vegetables from someone who grew them in soil I recognise, the way morning light reveals the texture of familiar cliffs or woodland, the sound of waves that have become the soundtrack to my creative process - these feelings cannot be faked or replicated.

In an era of digital reproduction and algorithmic art, felt experience becomes increasingly precious. My pictures offer something that cannot be coded or computed: the irreplaceable synthesis of multiple creative languages, each mastered over decades, now flowing together with the authentic emotional connection to a place that has shaped both my life and my art.