A drawing made for Ambit Magazine issue 240 to accompany Catherine McNamara’s short story 'Lake Rhapsody'. 

pastel on paper

Sammi Lynch was born in 1995 in the North West of England. She is a graduate of the Royal Drawing School whose work explores notions of place and memory and uses the natural world as a cypher for human nature and emotion.

Her practice begins with drawing from life with pastels, these drawings then serve as material for working in the studio and are developed and translated through a range of techniques including painting and printmaking. Her work expresses lived experiences of the environment through canvases that emphasise space, texture and light. The effect of these paintings is to distil momentary impressions, observed or remembered, to immerse us in the sensations of a landscape.

Lynch has been awarded artist residencies in Scotland and Italy and has exhibited in group shows, including exhibitions at Annely Juda Fine Art, Lychee One, Soho Revue and Christie’s auction house. Her first solo exhibition “The Last Time we Swam” was in 2023 with Blue Shop Gallery, London. She has since had her second solo exhibition at Solito Gallery in Naples, Italy. Lynch’s work is held in public and private collections. Her recent collaboration with Burberry has been shortlisted for a V&A Award.

'Spotlight: Sammi Lynch' Annely Juda Fine Art

'Changing The Subject' Annely Juda Fine Art

'The Last Time We Swam', Blue Shop Gallery

'Picasso: A 50 Year Legacy', Christie's Auction House

'We Shake With Joy, We Shake With Grief' Solito Gallery, Naples 

The Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s Auction House, London 

The Drawing Year - Royal Drawing School Shoreditch

Royal Drawing School Alumni Fundraiser - Buckingham Palace 

Artist in Residence, Studio Ashby, London

Royal Drawing School - The Drawing Year (Post Grad Scholarship)

Manchester School of Art - Foundation Diploma 

Sammi Portfolio

By the Lake