Frances Lambe

Please excuse my little delay in updating my blog the past few days, with our Progress Reviews next week (mine Monday) I've been desperately searching for some motivation to get me kick started again. In this time I've been working on my notes and also my Contextual notebook, which I really enjoy! I'm coming across some very interesting artists whose work relates to me and my work in some way. One being the inspirational Frances Lamb.

I first got intrigued by her work upon seeing it in the Bluewall Gallery in Co. Cavan last year. The shapes, forms, textures of her work are beautiful. I love how each piece she makes is based on something that has significance and meaning to her (and this is where I come in). From the work of hers that I have seen it’s inspiring to see how she always works from nature. She sees feels and experiences things in her everyday life and in the hobbies that she does that inspires her pieces.

I hope to do this through my work also. In the way that my passion is to photograph things and more recently for this project, beautiful aspects of nature that I feel are taken for granted every day. Anyway, I just wanted to show you some of the works by Frances Lambe that particularly appeal to me :)

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I love the peculiar 'flow' this piece has to its form. It seems so organic in its colour and texture, almost like a stone or pebble found on a river bed that had been smoothed by the water. The markings remind me of star constellations.

Perhaps not the best image as the selection of this particular piece seems limited (as is my knowledge of technology). For me this piece is quite nature orientated and organic. The ring of little toadstool looking pieces seem almost fairytale like.

 

 

This piece is my favourite as it looks just like rain running down a window or on a clear surface. I love being able to include the element of water or ice in my work in some way and I really love Lambe's precision in making this seem as though it is just that.