Lynne Blackburn MA
Artist/Printmaker
Statement & CV
My practice has revolved around printmaking since completing my BA in Fine Art Printmaking at Maidstone College of Art in 1987. I went back to college, to gain an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell University of the Arts, in 2009 and then set up my own screen print editioning business – Hippo Screenprinters – where I print editions for other artists.
Working mostly with screen printing, and perhaps as a response to the precision required to edition other artists prints, my work has evolved into an abstract, spontaneous and painterly approach to the technique.
I paint directly onto blank screens to create series’ of multi-layered, unique, monoprints – printing a succession of layers of semi-transparent ink to build up colour and texture.
I work on a series of pieces at once, moving between each piece as they develop, leaving one piece to breathe as I add layers, or marks, to another.
The colours and mark making I use are inspired by life – my life – the process of aging; the constantly changing landscape of the city where I live and the countryside where my studio is; the passing of time and the traces of human activity on the land and on buildings.
Often I add handwritten or screenprinted text to my prints. The words and phrases explore my lived experience of being a female artist, the frustrations and tribulations of aging and of trying to maintain an artistic practice whilst also running a business.
I exhibit my work regularly at Art Fairs including The Affordable Art Fairs in Hampstead and Battersea, and annually with a group of fellow Printmakers – LOOP Artists – at Bankside Gallery in London.
I held a solo exhibition at The Cauliflower in Ilford and have exhibited with The Bainbridge Open & Cultivate. I’ve taken part in group shows many times with East London Printmakers at galleries such as The Embassy Tea Gallery, Shoreditch; Forman’s Gallery on Fish Island; Bruder Grimm Museum in Kassel, Germany; the V&A Museum of Childhood; GLA City Hall, London and many more.
Statement & CV
My practice has revolved around printmaking since completing my BA in Fine Art Printmaking at Maidstone College of Art in 1987. I went back to college, to gain an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell University of the Arts, in 2009 and then set up my own screen print editioning business – Hippo Screenprinters – where I print editions for other artists.
Working with screen printing as a career has led me, in my own practice, to explore a more painterly approach to using silkscreen printing to create multi-layered, unique, monoprints, usually also including handwritten, or screenprinted text and gold leaf. The words and phrases I use in my pieces are based on my life experience; by the situations that we have all been through in the last few years and where we find ourselves now – both socially, politically, and personally. The works explore the meaning and use of words by the media and government to influence, manipulate and confuse us and my own experience of aging, being an artist whilst also running a business and the state of the world as I see it, often humorous and exasperated in equal measure!
I exhibit my work regularly at Art Fairs including The Affordable Art Fairs in Hampstead and Battersea, and annually with a group of fellow Printmakers – LOOP Artists – at Bankside Gallery in London. I held a solo exhibition at The Cauliflower in Ilford and have exhibited with The Bainbridge Open & Cultivate. I’ve taken part in group shows many times with East London Printmakers at galleries such as The Embassy Tea Gallery, Shoreditch; Forman’s Gallery on Fish Island; Bruder Grimm Museum in Kassel, Germany; the V&A Museum of Childhood; GLA City Hall, London and many more.