 In 1962, Blackburn, with his wife and three children, returned to Britain, where the influential art collector and gallery owner Jim Ede saw his one-man show in London's Woodstock Gallery.Impressed by what he saw, Ede offered Blackburn a place in his Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge among artists including Peter Lanyon, William Scott, and Roger Hilton.Soon after, Blackburn's ten-year-old daughter became ill and needed a kidney transplant.