Artist Educator (North West)
Former Head of Art with 23 years’ experience in secondary education, Lynne Calland now works across community arts and wellbeing settings. She delivers inclusive creative workshops for adults with additional needs, wellbeing-focused sessions for primary schools and university staff and facilitates arts and crafts groups in a range of community contexts.
Alongside this, Lynne collaborates with local shops and businesses to design and paint murals and creates hand-painted seasonal windows that support local events, celebrations and community identity.
Her personal art practice explores experimental mixed media, combining alcohol ink and textile-based processes to create colourful, expressive and tactile work. She regularly sells her work at regional events, including the Blackburn Festival of Making and Vintage by the Sea.
Lynne has worked freelance as a secondary art lesson creator for Oak National Academy and has experience as a school art consultant and moderator for OCR. She has also written two articles for NSEAD, including a piece on using found resources during the pandemic and a Black British History Makers portrait project featured in the anti-racist edition of AD magazine.