Reviews & publications featuring my art

Over the years, my art has been published here and there, and commented on in reviews in the media. Very little of any of it has been captured and recorded here!

I think we can safely say, I'm not too good at blowing my own trumpet. Another thing on my long list of 'to put right' to‑dos – toot toot!

Reviews

A close-up of a sea linocut printed

‘playful’ sea appeal stands-out from the crowd

Lynne Roebuck’s small and exquisite [print] entitled Tiny’s at Sea shows a boat tossed about on the crest of a wave. It appears to be perilously poised, but what you find yourself focusing on is the exuberant bouncy playfulness of the sea.

There is an error in the article. 'Tiny's At Sea' is a linocut, not an etching.

www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk, (2011). Art Show Is Both Festive And Lively. Available at: <http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/­lifestyle/entertainment/­art_show_is_both_festive_and_lively_1_4044162> [Accessed: Jan 2019]

breaking waves original print

Miniature Art In A Personal Top 10

A review of an exhibition of miniature art spoke kindly of my print (shown above)

Drewery, Jenny (2009). 55 Artists Help Mini Art Make Big Impact.Scarborough Evening News. Accessed May 20, 2009.

Miniature Art Top 10
night-time original print

Lifting The Spirits With Simple And Direct (2 reviews)

A bi-annual art show, two reviewers in two years choose my prints to highlight from amongst the many paintings, photographs and other prints.  |  Read the reviews…

  • Heath, Christine (2010). Exhibition to lift the spiritsScarborough Evening News. January 27, 2010.
  • Osbourne, Roger (2008). Swirls of colour but is there enough bite?High Tide arts magazine. February, pp 7
East Coast Open

Publications

A close-up of a sea linocut printed

Encyclopedia of Printmaking

Two of my prints are included in a 2nd edition of a book about printmaking. More information and a link here in future.

Link to‑do
A magazine lies open with an article and two of Lynne's prints reproduced

Blessed are the printmakers

Somewhere, I have this magazine. I also have a pdf of the article. Where they both are... is another matter! When I next come across either, I will enlarge on this entry.

Link to‑do
three greetings cards captured from a retailers web page

Greetings!

Three prints, one linocut and two digital prints are with a publisher of greetings cards, after they approached me hoping to license some artwork.

Link to‑do

While it's really nice to have favourable publicity, and publishers approaching asking for rights – and I always appreciate it – it's not something I make a career of. Hence this record isn't complete – not even near.

All of these reviews and publications, you'll have noted, involve my linocuts and digital art. All but one, were published during a period of time when I'd parked painting.

Though I've explained it elsewhere I'm happy to tell it briefly here too…

I parked painting because I was finding it impossible to unlearn years as a commercial illustrator. I was trying to be more 'painter' than 'illustrator', and failing. I'd got to a point where it felt sensible to give it a rest.

So I took up printmaking because it was totally different, and I couldn't not make art. Most of the reviews and publications above are from this time.

My paintings stayed parked for far longer than I'd planned because 1) printmaking was too much fun, and then 2) a 'lightening strike' serious illness wasn't fun.

So relatively speaking, I've only recently picked up my painting again. It's been quite an adventure so far.

And that's why there's no reviews or publications involving my paintings… yet.

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