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