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John Blackburn is a British abstract painter, who, after critical success in the 1960s, fell into relative obscurity until the early 2000s. Blackburn incorporates found objects and materials on his canvases, citing their 'previous existence. His paintings utilize acrylic paint, oil paint, and encaustic, as well as resin, grit, house paint, and varnish. According to a review of his 2015 show at the ARTIS Gallery, recent work 'rides roughshod over any conventions of neatness and grace, using bold form, often black, and adorning his surface with found objects and collage.' Of his own work, the artist says, 'I suppose, that’s what my painting’s about; life itself is terribly dangerous, terribly cruel, terribly rewarding. All these things at once.