Chloë Lamb Biography

As a painter, Chloë Lamb is a sensualist in the most compelling way. Viewing one of Lamb's paintings, large or small, it is made plain something that she has articulated all along: her passion for all of oil paint's attributes. She is inspired by its pigment, the ability to thin it out into a glaze or build its density up to incredible dimension, and especially its long drying time, which allows her to paint wet into wet – a technique not easily mastered. She works instinctually with her materials. Unable to (and disinterested in) envisioning the final outcome of a painting, Lamb works on each until she sees it to completion, in a way conjuring from those very attributes which she admires so much.

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Lamb is primarily an abstract painter, which is not to say that her work never veers towards representation. To the contrary, Lamb's observational tendencies cause her work to linger slightly in the realm of representation. This could encompass a landscape (resembling something of a color field painting), with a fore-, middle, and background, a single cloud in an otherwise unarticulated sky, or a clearly rendered tulip amidst soft approximations of other flowers. Lamb has also experimented with figural painting, which maintains similar abstract elements but brings others into greater focus. It is in a purer abstraction, however, where Lamb is most at home.

Rather than creating an under-drawing in graphite or diluted paint, Lamb's paintings begin with a blank canvas and the first stroke of paint laid down by the brush. She likes to build her materials, playing with levels of transparency and opacity but also with negative space, which she considers crucial to a painting's success, allowing for "space and air," as she says. For Lamb it really is about this process – lines and blocks of color laid down, followed by an instinctual building up of paint that can often breed form. She is not interested in the inclination to over-intellectualise abstract art but prefers the viewer to take as much pleasure in the sumptuousness of the paint on the canvas as she did in placing it there. Her paintings, at their very core, are about making the very best of oil paint's attributes.

While painting has been an ongoing passion for Lamb, it was not until she was married and had her first child that she decided to focus more seriously on art. She came from an artistically inclined family, with a father who graduated from London's prestigious Slade School of Fine Art, and a mother who took handicraft to new heights at home and in the garden. In the early 1990s, Lamb attended the Heatherly School of Fine Art where she finessed her technical skills. She also took classes under Robin Child (part of the pedagogical lineage of Walter Sickert) at Lydgate Art Research Center in Wiltshire after working for several years in another unrelated field.

Lamb was born in 1960 and grew up in Wiltshire. She currently lives and works in Hampshire in the United Kingdom. She exhibits regularly in the U.S and the U.K.

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Sitting Snug by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture
Chloë Lamb Sitting Snug, 2024 Oil and collage on wood
17.8 x 18.4 cm
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Industry by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting
Chloë Lamb Industry, 2024 Oil and collage on board
26.7 x 25.4 cm
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Challenge by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting
Chloë Lamb Challenge, 2023 Oil on linen canvas
127 x 127 cm
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Tuesday Afternoon by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting
Chloë Lamb Tuesday Afternoon, 2024 Oil on linen canvas
101.6 x 88.9 cm
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Sherbet Lemon by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting
Chloë Lamb Sherbet Lemon, 2024 Oil on linen canvas
50.8 x 61 cm
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Construction by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, photography, print
Chloë Lamb Construction, 2020 Mixed media on wood
35.6 x 33 cm
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Resolution II by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting
Chloë Lamb Resolution II, 2020 Oil on linen
101.6 x 88.9 cm
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Buttermere by Chloë Lamb contemporary artwork painting, works on paper
Chloë Lamb Buttermere, 2018 Oil on linen
40 x 60 inches
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