– dynamic paintings fired by colour

Lynne Cameron is a contemporary painter and writer based in Scotland. Her work attends to our brave attempts at building relationships across misunderstanding and to beauty in our damaged world, in an expanded practice that includes monoprints, text collages, and video, alongside vibrant paintings on paper and canvas.

Fearless colour, the fierce examination of a woman’s life, and a refusal to compromise drive Cameron’s process. In her paintings, colours respond to each other in swirling conversations, reaching out across the surface in lines and gestural forms that reflect a dynamics of contingency and response, disruption and contemplation. The works conjure landscapes of possibility that invite viewers to pause and explore. To find a space to retreat into. To be with the self by going beyond the self.

Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, London, Leeds, and Argyll, and is collected internationally. She began drawing and painting around twenty years ago, after operations to remove cataracts shocked her into a new awareness of colour. She pursued her passion for art through part-time and short courses. In 2014, she left her university professorship to work as a professional artist. Cameron spent 2015-17 as research fellow and artist-in-residence at Cinepoetics, Center for Advanced Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

Cameron finds support in the reflective sensibilities of women artists, including Joan Snyder and Anne Truitt; in the delicate scrutiny and poetic writing of John Berger; and in the powerful colour of Emil Nolde and other abstract expressionists. Each place she lives in provides energy for her paintings, in the form of resonant lines, shapes, or gestures. These influences echo through her work, shaped by the artist as she reflects on the twists and turns of her own life, determined to dance while the music plays.