Must-See Pulp Painting Art: New Series by Lynn Sures
Lynn Sures is a paper artist one should know—she has been using pulp for over 20 years. Excitingly, she just had her first solo exhibition in New York City, featured a group of new work titled Catalunya.
Based in the Washington D.C. area, Lynn started out as a painter, and along the way, learning how to make handmade paper pulp, seeing it as a new medium for her work.She works across many mediums, from sculpture, printmaking, painting, and what this body of work is focused on—pulp painting. What is pulp painting? Well, paper pulp can be pigmented into different colors. These colored pulps are then used to paint with cups, squirt bottles, onto a freshly made, wet base sheet of handmade paper.
Unique to these pulp paintings is a clear sense of drawing and defined, specific shapes, despite their abstractness. The Montserrat series is inspired by the particular mountain ranges in Catalonia, in northeast Spain. They use memory and all of the senses to relieve the experience of being in the presence of those sawtoothed mountain ranges. Hand papermaking is a lengthy, physical art-making process, and this work connects the act of remembrance of place within the process of creating a pulp painting.The pulp painting medium also has a undeniable material presence, which serves to echo the experience of being in the physical presence of mountains.
Looking for more?
Watch Pulp Painting Symposium, a video where Lynn Sures describes her working process.
Visit Lynn Sures' artist website to see more artwork.