Lynn Schoene
Relief prints and objects of handmade paper

“After focusing for many years on painting and its manifold possibilities, Lynn Schoene – a British artist based in Germany - finds herself on the borderline between painting and sculpture. Even her choice of material, where texture and tactility are predominant, alludes to a growth process in her handmade paper objects and relief prints which are often coated in oil, wax or other materials, giving them their grainy, oily appearance. The two poles between concealing - hiding from view and revealing –releasing what is innermost, define Lynn Schoene’s relief work and particularly her three-dimensional paper objects as profound and essential works of art. The fibres, of which the paper is made, remain visible; the wax coats the objects as if with a thin, transparent layer of skin; random traces of rust are left by metallic embossing moulds. The organic and archaic character of the objects, the odour of the materials used, appeal to the senses and evoke associations to time and to a mythical past.”
(Extract from a text by Dr. Rainer Lawicki on the work of Lynn Schoene)

A main theme in Lynn Schoene’s work has, for many years, been her own Celtic roots and the search for identity in an increasingly faceless society. Past and present are always seen in direct relation to one another. “The past is us” – is the title of a series of objects comprising seven cubes. Small openings in each of the wax-coated cubes allow a view into an interior embossed with traces of rust.

Lynn Schoene lives and works in the Heidelberg / Mannheim area of southwest Germany, teaches art at several adult education centres in the region and has been an assistant at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg since 2002 (Zhou Brothers’ Painting Class). Since 1997, she has been involved in the running of a small museum for contemporary art, Museum Théo Kerg in Schriesheim, Germany in an honorary capacity.

Her artistic career comprises numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe. Her art work can be found in several public collections, e.g. The Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Justice in Berlin.