In many of his compositions the theme of frustration pervades. This is well illustrated in the painting where the scarecrow is glaring angrily at the bird on his arm, which he is trying in vain to catch. Similarly the painting where the protesting man is shouting out his frustrations with society, but at the same time is being manipulated like a puppet, symbolises the way graffiti as a vehicle of protest has been manipulated to become a socially acceptable form of art, thus negating its original motivation. The painter pin-points our own feelings of frustration and impotence and our own protest at these feelings in compositions that continue over the edge of the canvas, evoking infinity in the same way as our fantasies have no actuel limits and are thus forever subject to change.

  An exhibition of John Goudie Lynch is an experience that gives shape to our inner world populated with meaningful people and objects, an imaginary and symbolic world we all have in common.

  John Goudie Lynch invites us to look at things from another angle. His paintings give us a rare moment of insight, not only into his world, but into our own. He evokes images that are not always reassuring - they are sometimes even frightening - but they are images that will remain with us for a long time.