Chloe Lamb
(British-Contemporary)
An English painter with a remarkably original style, Chloe Lamb combines the best elements of traditional painting with a modern sensibility. Her dense fields of color suggest the work of 20th Century American painters like Wolf Kahn or Milton Avery, but the sensibility is clearly European. Influenced by the Modern British School, especially Keith Vaughn and Ivan Hitchens, she spent the early part of her career working solely in pastel. Still, it is the deft use of color and aggressive brushwork that defines all her current compositions, especially the landscapes with their bold suggestion of movement.
Lamb's works were described by Benjamin Genocchio in the New York Times as "[evoking] windswept landscapes beneath changing skies, the artist working in a loose and painterly style that sometimes veers into near abstraction."
Chloe Lamb has had four successful solo exhibitions in London, and has been part of several group shows in Britain as well. Her first one-woman show in the United States was here in East Hampton in 2006.
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