Inspiration
Lynda Burke’s linocuts are mainly monochrome black and white. She has a strong sense of composition and design – using dramatic perspectives, grills and grids. With variety of markmaking and texturing in eg the skies. Some have hand-coloured splashes of red.
linocuts landscapes interiors and still life
Her work
Verduno, Italy I like the vertical repetitions at the bottom here – is this a graveyard?
Crazy Paving I like the design of this from a simple subject.
Clissold Park Interesting view through wire fence
Colombe d’Or, Vence this has an effective splash of red.
Terrace 1 Vence again I really like the bold composition of this with the railings of the terrace.
Bosham here the marks for the mackerel sky I find effective together with the long format and rather bleak landscape.
Biography
Lynda Burke was born in London in 1950 and has lived and worked there most of her life, in recent years sharing her time between Camden and Vence in the south of France.
After a two-year Fine Arts Foundation Course at East Ham Technical College in London she studied Painting at Winchester School of Art – DipAD / BA(Hons) – for three years under the guidance of established artists including Patrick Heron, graduating in 1972.
Throughout the 1970s, Lynda continued painting and print-making as well as raising a family. She regularly sold work privately and in solo exhibitions during the 1980s and 1990s, including commissions from The Distillers Company (now Diageo) and others. Her work is in private collections in England, France, United States, Japan, Singapore, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy.
Since the year 2000, Lynda has been an official guide at the original Tate Britain and the celebrated Tate Modern in London, leading regular tours around the vast galleries and bringing modern art to life for thousands of international visitors.
Since 2006 Lynda has been making art mainly in Vence, where she has also resumed an earlier interest in the medium of linocut prints, some of which can be seen on this site. As well as her Tate Modern tours in London she has also started a series of lectures on the famous artists of the Côte d’Azur.
Source: her website