Just got home
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Diana Lamb 