Lynne Blackburn

Lynne's practice revolves around screen printing and is currently focused on abstract monoprints, often involving text, and collage using elements of screen prints, vintage papers and ephemera, as well as recreated notebook and diary pages found when clearing her Mum's house. The creative process has always been Lynne's way of processing emotion. She says 'creating allows me to pause, convert life’s chaos into gesture and find space for thought, meditation and transcendence. My work is mostly concerned with themes of aging; feelings of impermanence brought about by loss, grief and absence and my attempts to come to terms with these issues and to rebuild, recreate, piece together and grow.' Lynne's prints usually happen in series’ with each individual piece developing in its own way during the process of painting, printing, layering, collaging and mark-making. She tries to allow the prints to guide the creative process while looking for relationships and tension between the printed shapes and the empty space around them and encouraging ‘mistakes’ and accidental moments such as ink bleeding under the stencil or drying in the screen, causing printed shapes to become ghostly and faded. Lynne exhibits regularly at Art Fairs including The Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead and Battersea; she is also a long time member of both ELP and LOOP Artists and has been a part of their exhibitions for many years.