Lynne Blackburn, Artist and Director at Hippo Screenprinters

Showing at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea from 15th- 19th October, Stand E11 with East London Printmakers.

www.lynneblackburn.com, www.hipposcreenprinters.co.uk eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk

Lynne’s practice has revolved around printmaking since completing a BA in Fine Art printmaking at Maidstone College of Art in 1987. She went back to college to gain an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell University of the Arts, in 2009. Lynne then went on to set up her own screen print editioning business- Hippo Screenprinters- where she prints editions for other artists.

Prints by Lynne Blackburn, 2025: ‘Coming To Terms’ and ‘Impermanence’.

Her inspiration comes from life, from her lived experience of aging and the passing of time; the ever-changing nature of the city where she lives in London and the countryside around her studio; the traces of human life left on the buildings and the land. “I find many parallels between this and the layering of colour and marks in the screen printing process; how the addition of a particular mark in a certain colour changes the artwork completely, in a moment”.

Print by Lynne Blackburn, 2024: ‘Unforeseen’.

Lynne works on a series of pieces at once, moving between them and responding to each one individually as they develop, leaving one piece to breathe as she add layers, or marks, to another. By painting directly onto the mesh of a blank silk screen, exposing hand drawn or painted marks onto another, and also adding acrylic paint and hand written text to each piece, she builds up colour and texture in the prints over multiple, semi-transparent, layers. Each piece ends up as a unique monoprint.