This painting explores a narrow interior space, using height as well as depth within the confines of a box canvas. The view leads from the main room into a hallway. Back in the room we see shifting planes reveal a variety of shapes, textures, and muted tones. Coats and hats hang quietly, suggesting presence without the… Continue reading Just got home
Author: dianalamb09
THRESHOLD
These latest paintings explores everyday thresholds-spaces where distinctions between interior and exterior, human intention and organic growth, begin to dissolve. My latest work proposes interconnectedness as something modest, domestic, and persistent. Human presence is implied rather than depicted, allowing the relationships between things to take precedence over narrative or figures. Rather than presenting connection as… Continue reading THRESHOLD
Norwich 20 at 80
The Norwich 20 Group is celebrating its 80th birthday this year and all members have been invited to submit six pieces for its Anniversary Exhibition at The Undercroft in Norwich in May. Being asked to choose just six pieces, representing my creative output over the years, has been rather difficult; a bit, I’d imagine, like… Continue reading Norwich 20 at 80
Under Pressure
I’ve had a run of ill-health recently with bronchitis, shingles and then hospitalised with low sodium and high blood pressure. It has left me feeling very tired and, unusually for me, unable to draw for a while. But happily I have started drawing again now and, in my habit of being inspired by my immediate… Continue reading Under Pressure
Visual aide memoirs
I’ve spent a lot of time indoors this month with a recurring virus and haven’t felt well enough to do a lot of work or go outdoors. But the thing about drawing is that it’s instant, you just pick up your pencils and draw what’s to hand, or what you see. For this sketch of… Continue reading Visual aide memoirs
Painting from within
The pieces I have been working on this month have been, to a large extent, inspired by my interior life, in both the physical and mental sense. Illness has kept me indoors, which has made me more responsive to the environment and materials around me and more reliant on my memories; memories of childhood, of… Continue reading Painting from within
Strands
The pieces I have been working on this month bring together so many strands of my work and my life; garlic, life-drawing and glimpses through portals.
Drawn to art
A dear friend recently said to me ‘Diana, your paintings make people feel happy.’ and I have been thinking about his compliment a lot as I have sold more pieces than usual in recent months through exhibitions and from the Golden Triangle Art Trail. Why are people attracted to different styles of art? What is… Continue reading Drawn to art
New views
As followers of my posts will know, I take every opportunity I can to draw and paint, and a recent family wedding took me to West Norfolk where I was immersed in the countryside for a few days and inspired by the different light and landscapes. In the fields next to the place we were… Continue reading New views
Choices, choices…
I’ve been spending a lot of time this month trying to decide which paintings I will be showing at the Norwich 20 Exhibition in the Undercroft Gallery and for Norwich Open Studios. It is rather like choosing your favourite child which, as we all know, is impossible! It is not just about an artist’s personal… Continue reading Choices, choices…
Diana Lamb 