Detail from a new limited edition seascape print "3 Bays". Lynne's original prints have been available for just over three years and during this time, demand for her art has been healthy, with sales almost every month throughout the three years. A number of limited editions are beginning to approach being sold-out. The first is a seascape called "Headland" — only two of the twenty-five remain unsold at this time.
When artwork sells, it encourages an artist to produce more. This is often strengthened by galleries making requests too, in response to sales going well. What can raise it's head at the same time is the problem of balancing the pressure to produce, against maintaining 'creative time' to develop new ideas/subjects and to experiment. Artists perhaps worry too much about this however, because the best way to develop art is to make art. The more productive an artist is, the more their art develops. This is because no matter how well planned, or how many times an idea/subject has been done before, there is always something that goes differently and provides an opportunity for creative growth. Lynne has a theory that developing as an artist is as much - perhaps more - about being alert to these opportunities when they occur, as it is to planned "I'm experimenting now" exercises.
There is currently an, albeit it gentle, pressure on Lynne to produce more prints and she is planning a series of original prints which she intends to make in rapid succession. She hopes doing so will see her art develop in interesting ways as well as satisfy her galleries and buyers - win-win.