ARTIST STATEMENT

When you view Lynda Tygart's photography, you might wonder if you are actually looking at a painting or drawing. That's because Lynda's art will always involve a certain amount of hand coloring or inking, which creates an ethereal, painterly look to her photography.

Lynda's first love is working in the darkroom. As an accomplished printer of silver gelatin, she managed to carry this hands-on process a step further by learning to create Bromoils. The bromoil process was created in the early 1900's and requires the hand-inking of a bleached silver gelatin print.

"It is rare to find a bromoil in this age of Photoshop! The process requires too much work and too much heartache for the artist. A bromoil can require days to complete, only to be ruined in the very last phase".

It is Lynda's work with bromoil that brought her international attention. Her bromoils have been exhibited in Germany, Belgium and New York. One of Lynda's bromoils is now part of the perm­anent collection in the Nebraska Governor's Residence.

To mix things up, Lynda also works with a more contemporary form of photography, using mul­tiple exposures of a single image. "I try to carry my involvement a step further by finding a way to add hand-inking or hand-coloring to each photo­graph. By the time a piece is completed, it is prac­tic­ally a member of my family!"