Lynne Lomofsky

Lynne Lomofsky is  a Cape Town-based artist.

As well as being an experienced art educator and mentor, she has been a practising artist for over 30 years. She has worked across genres and media, including installation, textile screenprinting, drawing on paper, and painting (including oil on canvas and mixed media on canvas). Currently, after severe changes to her visual field and other visual losses, she has adapted her practice, concentrating on small-scale paintings on paper and board in mixed media (acrylic paints, gouache, ink and coloured pencil). Her works on paper and board have encompassed still life and portraits, while recently settling on botanical paintings of Cape wild flowers.

She is inspired by the natural world. Her daily dog walks in her local coastal environment, specifically the beaches and the Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve in Muizenberg, where she lives and works in her home studio, provide the subject matter for her work. Wild flowers grow on the dunes and in the sand of the vlei. These invite fresh inspiration daily. She will hand pick a flower or two and return to the studio where she can study their shapes, patterns and colours, and explore and understand them through drawing and painting.

A studio space showcasing large window and contemporary design elements
  • Work Experience

  • Various Teaching Positions in a Variety of Educational Settings
    Primary and High School, Technikons, and Adult Education at The Peter Clarke School, Cape Town (1995–2009)

    Leave Substitute Lecturer in Painting
    2005

    Part-Time Painting Lecturer, The Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
    2006–2009

    Owner/Designer, Blistering Barnacles
    Textile Printing Craft Business, Toronto, Canada (1990–1995)

  • Education

  • Bachelor of Arts in Art History, University of Cape Town (UCT)
    1980

    National Diploma in Fine Art, majoring in Painting, Former Cape Technikon
    1983

    Master of Fine Art in Painting, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
    2004

    Adult Art Education Winter Painting Course, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
    With Toronto painter Harold Klunder (1982)

    Extensive Travels Throughout Europe
    Visiting major national, commercial, and non-profit art galleries in all the major cities (1983–1984)

  • Solo Exhibitions

  • Stilled Lives, 6 Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town (2023)

    A Series of Three Solo Gouache on Paper Painting Exhibitions:
    Be Careful How You Look (2018), You Made Me Look (2016), Just What They Are (2013)
    6 Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town

    Patient Copy, AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2009)

    Body of Evidence, AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2003)
    KZN NSA Gallery, Durban (2003)

    Cancer Ward LE:32, Mau Mau Gallery, Cape Town (1997)
    Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg (1998)

    Recent Work, Koffler-Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Canada (1992)

    Stilled Lives, 6 Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town (2023)

    A Series of Three Solo Gouache on Paper Painting Exhibitions:
    Be Careful How You Look (2018), You Made Me Look (2016), Just What They Are (2013)
    6 Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town

    Patient Copy, AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2009)

    Body of Evidence, AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2003)
    KZN NSA Gallery, Durban (2003)

    Cancer Ward LE:32, Mau Mau Gallery, Cape Town (1997)
    Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg (1998)

    Recent Work, Koffler-Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Canada (1992)

    Group Exhibitions

    Home is Where the Art Is, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2021)

    Summer Salon, Nel Gallery, Cape Town (2021, 2022, 2023)

    Inaugural Exhibition, AVA Satellite Gallery, Artem Centre, Sea Point, Cape Town (2021)

    Art Under the Bed, home of Vanessa Cowling, Oranjezicht, Cape Town (2021, 2022, 2023)

    Anatomy of Loss, Upstairs Gallery, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, Cape Town (2022)

    Group Exhibitions, Toronto, Canada
    Lomofsky lived in Toronto, Canada, where she participated in a variety of group exhibitions (1990–1995)

  • Awards & Grants

  • Press

  • Jules Kramer Scholarship for MFA studies (1999), 

    NRF Student Grant for MFA Studies(1999),

    NAC Exhibition Grant (1997),

    Ontario Artists in Schools (1990- 1995),

    ONTARIO CRAFT COUNCIL AWARD for Textile work (1993), Best of show in Textiles award at TOAE ( Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition) CA,

    NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL OF CANADA GRANT for Textile Work (1994 ),

    Textile Studio Residency, (Harborfront Craft Studios, Queens Quay, Toronto Canada, (1992- 1994)