Lin Kerr

Lin Kerr’s background is deeply rooted in fine arts, with a BA Fine Art degree in oil painting. She studied at Wits University in Johannesburg and after many years in graphic design and teaching in Cape Town and later in London, she has recently returned to her first love – oil painting.

She explores and exploits oil paints in layers of scratching back, adding marks and sometimes pattern, using a variety of tools and often just fingers or a palette knife to manipulate the paint. She often works over a background of text which is physically integrated yet stylistically juxtaposed adding contemplation. She does figurative painting, contemporary landscape and still life. Recently she has taken to deliberately slitting her canvases and then carefully stitching them – a textile version of kintsugi.

After many years of teaching art and passing on her experience and skills to others, Lin retired to concentrate on her own work, but she is now back to teaching workshops as she missed the buzz!  She has also taken to quirky sculpture, using everyday objects, particularly books, which she prefers to re-purpose than throw away.  Finally, Lin has also begun to bead, as her painting studio is cold in winter, and she is not fond of TV.  The result is a stunning range of unique and delicate beaded jewellery.