“My work belongs to a quiet lineage of artists who create not from image, but from inner experience. Like Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint and Agnes Martin, I use abstraction as a language of presence, a way of painting what cannot be seen, but can be felt. SoulCircles are not pictures. They’re pauses. Their presence made visible. I paint to return to myself. And I share this work so others might feel the same - a quiet sense of something true, something whole, something home.”
Lynda Howitt is an Australian abstract artist known for her meditative SoulCircle works, intuitive paintings that invite the viewer into a space of stillness, presence, and self-awareness. With a style rooted in purity and spontaneity, Howitt’s art is a reflection of consciousness itself, created not to impress, but to express the deeper essence of being.
Her signature SoulCircles emerge through a free-flowing process of ink and water, often incorporating salt from Western Australia’s coast and lakes. These elements merge in real time to create layered, symbolic works that speak directly to the soul. Each circle represents wholeness, connection, and flow, a quiet invitation back to the centre of self.
Born in Uganda and raised in Australia, Howitt’s life has always been marked by movement across cultures, landscapes, and ways of seeing. Her path has taken her from a celebrated career in design and creative direction to a slower, more soulful way of creating art that reflects her personal journey toward a conscious, ease-filled life. She now lives and works by the ocean in Geraldton, Western Australia, from her beachside studio where she paints surrounded by light, sea, and space.
Alongside her studio practice, Howitt works as a creative consultant and art director, helping brands find their visual and emotional truth. Her clients include regional and Australian businesses where she brings the same quality of presence to brand identity that she brings to her art.
With a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University, Howitt’s work has been exhibited internationally in New York, California, and Sydney, and across Western Australia. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including Australia’s richest art prize, and her paintings are held in both private and public collections including the Sydney Royal Hospital for Women, the City of Greater Geraldton, and global brand collaborations.
At the heart of Howitt’s practice is a belief that art can be a quiet mirror, a reminder of the soul’s presence. Her works are created in the now, made to illuminate a deeper inner knowing. They are often described by collectors as portals of presence, visual anchors for grounding, reflection, and returning to self.
“Her work embodies presence, ease and soul. A quiet call back to the essence of being.” – Collector
“The tradition of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting can be seen in Howitt’s work. The sense of chromatic nuance, subtle gesture, and lyricism makes her compositions exhilarating.” – Byron Coleman, Gallery & Studio Magazine, New York
Howitt is increasingly recognised as a collectible artist whose work transcends decoration, it offers a soul connection, a felt experience, a return to simplicity, to consciousness and to the true self.
Education
1990 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Other Practices
2016 Timothy Hawkesworth Workshop, Pennsylvania, USA
2006 Art from the Heart Work, Sydney, Australia
2003 Conceptualisation, London
2001 Art and Imagination, London
Exhibitions
2025 - Batavia Unravelled, Group Exhibition, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
2024 - Mid West Arts Members, Group Exhibition, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
2024 - Ebb + Flow, Group Exhibition, Travelling Regional Western Australia Galleries
2023 - Mid West Art Prize, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
2022 - Ebb + Flow, Group Exhibition, Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA
2021 - Mid West Art Prize, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
2021 - The New Seashell, Bank Gallery, Carnamah WA
2020 - Seashell, Sealounge Gallery, Geraldton WA
2020 - Soulcircle, Light Box Gallery, The City of Greater Geraldton, WA
2019 - Soulcircles, Sealounge Gallery, Geraldton WA
2019 - Balayi, Group Exhibition, Queens Park Theatre, Geraldton WA
2019 - Geraldton Grammar School art auction, Geraldton WA
2019 - Sealover, Solo Exhibition, The Exchange Gallery, Geraldton WA
2017 - Artist Open House, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA
2017 - Shipley School Art Auction, Pennsylvania, USA
2016 - Balwin School Art Auction, Pennsylvania, USA
2012 - Collective Show, Pasadena Gallery, California, USA
2009 - Affinity, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008 - Wind Beneath My Wings, Jadite Gallery, New York, USA
2008 - Ronald McDonald House Charities art auction, Sydney, Australia
2008 - Royal Hospital for Women art auction, Sydney, Australia
2008 - Postcode 2008 Group Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 - Soul, Bathers Pavilion Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 - Ronald McDonald House Charities art auction, Sydney, Australia
2007 - St Lucy’s school for disabilities art auction, Sydney, Australia
2006 - Signature of Sydney Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
2006 - Faces of Mosman, Photo Exhibition touring, Australia, UK, Italy
2006 - Faces of Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 - Seduced by the Sea, Bathers Pavilion Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 - Postcode 2008 Group Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004 - Postcode 2008 Group Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Art Residency
2021 - Outback Bloom Wildflower Festival, Mullewa CRC, Mullewa, WA
2021 - Ebb + Flow, North Midlands Project, Carnamah, WA
Events
2019 - Sealounge Pop Up Gallery & Shop, Geraldton WA
2019 - 400 Seagulls, Artwork gifting to The City of Greater Geraldton, WA
2020 - Sealounge Pop Up Gallery & Shop, Geraldton WA
Awards
2023 - Finalist - Mid West Art Prize, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton WA
2021 - Finalist - Mid West Art Prize, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton WA
2012 - Honorable Mention Artavita Juried 2nd Contemporary Masters Comp, USA
2012 - Special Recognition Light Space & Time Art Gallery Juried ‘Abstracts’ Comp, USA
2006 - Winner ‘Signature of Sydney’ ‘Australia’s richest art prize’, Sydney, Australia
2006 - Winner Faces of Mosman Comp, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2001 - Winner Best Brand Communications Design Awards, London
2001 - Winner Best Brand Comms Brochure Design Awards, London
1995 - Winner WA Newspapers Best Ad Design of the Year Awards, Perth
1993 - Winner WA Newspapers Best Ad Design of the Year Awards, Perth
1986 - First Prize Poster Design Competition, Perth, Australia
1986 - First Prize Art Print Exhibition, Geraldton Art Gallery, Australia
1985 - First prize Photography Comp, Geraldton Art Gallery, Australia
Art Collections
Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia
City of Greater Geraldton, Regional Art Gallery
North Midlands Project, Carnamah, Australia
Corporations and Private home USA / Australia