Countryside La Vie Magazine

New figurative and landscape works

Tuesday 6th May - Saturday 17th May 2008 is your chance to visit Chelsea’s Cricket Fine Art at Langton Street Gallery, dealers in contemporary British and Continental painters and sculptors, to view an exhibition of oil paintings and pastels by accomplished artist Chloe Lamb. This is Chloe’s long awaited second one-woman show here in the UK, the first one having achieved total sell-out

Exhibiting regularly in the UK and in the USA, Chloe comes fresh from her most recent exhibition in New York in Autumn 2007, where her work was described in The New York Times by Benjamin Genocchio as having: “…a mercurial quality, evoking windswept landscapes beneath changing skies, the artist working in a loose and painterly style that sometimes veers into near abstraction.”

Working instinctively and with the sensuality of her materials, the artist says: “I start with areas of colour and lines of direction that I then build on, the way the paint behaves often dictating the path I follow, as well as the end finally reached. What is left undone or unfinished is important, to allow for space and air. The density of colour, its transparency or opacity, is part of the solution to the puzzle. This is often a protracted journey and sometimes the end frustratingly elusive.”

“I get inspiration from the land around me and the people I observe – both here and afield. With my figurative work it is the intimacy between people; the closeness or distance, activity or stillness and - as with the landscapes and abstracts - the forms within the flat surface of the canvas that engage.”

Viewing her work as an ongoing journey, Chloe feels fortunate to work with Robin Child at the internationally acclaimed Lydgate Art Research Centre in Wiltshire.

Don’t miss this latest collection. With its muted tones and tranquil feel, it will not disappoint those who have come to know and love the evocative work of this artist who paints with such empathy and sure skill.

Opening times: Monday to Friday
10.00 am to 6.00 pm and Saturdays 11.00 am to 4.00 pm.