Karen Lynn

I trained a s a fashion designer at Harrow School of Art, London UK and then as a Costume Designer at The English National Opera Company. Later on I discovered my love of set design, interiors and architecture. I then worked for many years as a Set decorator and Props Stylist on many feature films, commercials and TV productions.
I have been a figurative painter now for some years and love to paint people, fashion, exterior architecture, interesting buildings and flora in landscapes.
I work in oils and have a distinctive style, no matter what I paint. My work is thematic and I am attracted to and revisit time and time again, my favourite subjects, including crowds which feature highly detailed colourful images in the vogue of sophisticated and stylish fashions of the 1950s. I paint people, men and women inspired by people I know, people in the public eye and others from my imagination.
My fashion/stylist background allows me to invent a chorus of colours making patterns all painted with a stylist’s eye for colour and imagery. A fascination with non-uniform informality, that is to say, enticing the viewer at first to be attracted by the repetition of objects (people, trees, buildings) in a scene. But on closer inspection, inv...

Harrow College of Art- Fashion
TV and Film -set design
English National Opera- costume design

Affordable Art Fairs, London (Hampstead)
Affordable Art Fairs, London (Battersea)

Affordable Art Fairs- International
(Hong Kong, Singapore, New York)

Fine Art Consultancy, London