Lucy Lambert
I am a landscape painter and jazz pianist/singer experimenting with abstract and representational painting methods through oil paint. With a BFA in painting from Concordia University and a passion for the wild, free and expressive elements of the Turtle Island landscapes, I push into avant garde arenas with traditional media in order to express rhythm, texture, sound and synchronicity with my paintings.
As an artist with synaesthesia, music and color have a deep relationship for me. Synaesthesia is a neural cross over in the brain where sounds have associated colors and textures, and vice versa. This inspires me to pursue both the emotional and colorful aspects of jazz performance as well as the musical and rhythmic aspects of painting and illustration. The piano becomes a canvass for improvisational creativity, and the canvass a sound board for the emotional textures of music. As an interdisciplinary jazz musician, writer, and painter, with synaesthesia, I look for paintings to have a compositional rhythm and a harmony that you can almost hear and sing, as well as see. Like a poem, a painting should have a sense of music and time in it, a movement which one can snap their fingers to or dance within, as the eye moves within the canvass.
With an extensive background in touring and performing internationally, from street busking as an accordionist across Europe and Asia, to playing as a pianist and violinist in swing bands and jazz clubs in Montreal, New York, New Orleans, and LA, my experiences as an artist are vast and diverse.
Inspired by sunlight, and the divine pulse of my body in nature, I work exclusively outdoors and try to capture the spirit in nature through oil paint. With a 6 month intensive in classical art training from Atelier des Bresoles, a BFA in painting from Concordia, as well as years working in private art schools as a drawing model, I draw on techniques of the old masters and precise illustration skills while allowing the paint to push my work into impressionist, rhythmic, and abstract expressions.
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