Artist Lyn Walters is showing a collection of works at an exhibition, titled Transparencies, at Palazzo de Piro, Mdina.

Lyn Walters with some of her paintings.

When an accident left her unable to walk and stuck in a little house, half way up a hill on Paros, Greece, Walters began painting with a box of watercolours she found in the house on whatever medium she could get her hands on.

Walters’s first works were still life and scenes of things she saw in and around the house. Watercolour scenes, however, did not satisfy her desire for deep, rich colours, leading to her graduating to the acrylics she uses today. Some of Walters’s work is scattered across the world, from Australia to Asia and Canada. In 2007, Walters and her husband migrated to Malta and it was here that she evolved into the artist she is today, Today, she also enjoys working with pencil and charcoal on paper, which not only provide a break from her usual rich colours but also allow for a focus on details such as the lines in a face that define the character in a portrait.

Like all artists, most of Walters’s work is inspired by her surroundings. Representing what she sees with an emphasis on layered colours, she makes abstract representations of the mix of old and new architecture. The exhibition runs until July 30 at Palazzo de Piro, Mdina.