Artist Statement

My formative years as an adult artist were inspired by my family and work as a museum curator. My wife introduced me to dance as an art form and she taught me so much about patterns and movement. I also have three daughters who danced and they performed from early childhood into adulthood. As we followed their artistic progress, I learned more about the intricacies of dance and the complex designs of the theatre, attending scores of professional performances whenever we could. Light, colour, texture, layering, geometry - all these artistic elements play roles in my work as a painter and I credit these interests to the ongoing experiences I have had with dance and theatre.

I also have to consider the influence of an unlimited number of art works that I have viewed, studied and interpreted, having worked as a museum curator for 35 years. Through my work at four art museums in the United States I was able to see original art from around the world and across time. I have been particularly attracted to modern and contemporary art, being informed by almost a hundred years of abstract painting.  My art is intended to be cerebral, emotive, perceptive, exploratory, instinctive. I truly attempt to capture moments in my life experience. And just as no two moments can ever be the same, no two artworks are alike. I hope that viewers of my work can appreciate the value of close looking and its implications for critical thinking in a world where we all need to pay attention.

Biography

Ted is a practicing artist and an active volunteer with the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. He retired in 2013 after 40 years working as an art educator and curator. Most of his career was spent in art museums and he has a special fondness for his time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Albany Institute of History & Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Newark Museum. Lind majored in visual arts at Albion College (Michigan) and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Rochester Institute of Technology (New York). He was also a Max Beckmann Fellow in Advanced Painting Studies at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. Lind spent time apprenticed to a silversmith in Tlaquepaque, Mexico. His art can be found in numerous public and private collections. He lives in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia with his wife, Judy, and they both enjoy closely following the arts careers of three grown daughters.