From his first sell-out exhibition in the 1980's James Lynch went on to win awards from the Royal Academy, <br> the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and The Spectator. His patrons include the National Trust, Folio Society, <br> Lord Bath and many other eminent private collectors. <br> <br> He is known for his monumental animals set in luminous farmland and visionary English landscapes in <br> dramatic weather or lit by early morning, evening and seasonal light. There is often an aeriel viewpoint inspired by<br> his love of paragliding off hills in Somerset, Dorset and Wilshire.<br> His work is firmly in the tradition of English Romantic painters.<br> He paints on gesso-coated panels using the Renaissaince medium of egg tempera which he mixes himself.<br>