Autumn Morning II
Thomas Lamb was born in 1978 in Lincolnshire and trained at Wimbledon School of Art. He was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship for Painting & Sculpture at the British School at Rome (2001-2003), and spent two years living and working in Italy, where he was greatly influenced by the masters of the Italian Renaissance. In 2006, he won the Prince of Wales Bursary for the Arts, Athens and has subsequently exhibited in several group shows include Responding to Rome at the Estorick Collection of Modern Art, London and Hyogo International Competition of Painting, Hyogo Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan.
Each painting by Thomas Lamb begins with a walk; either through the bucolic hills and woodland surrounding his studio in Derbyshire, or the ethereal scenery of Japan, where the artist has made frequent visits. Preparatory sketches, drawn from observation, photography and memory, then form the foundation of each final work. The light and atmosphere of the landscape play an integral role - he explores landscapes bathed in moonlight, the first glimpses of a rising sun, or the luminous quality of a snow covered field.
Of his work and practice he states, “I attempt to create work that deepens my sense of the environment I am involved with and, through this, create paintings which envelop the viewer and engage with the transient in nature.”