Marie Lynn Lamb

Acrylic 16x20" The Yellow Light : An Absorbing Tale by Lamplight

expressionist painting, comp. Jan 4, 2022 

yellow, titanium white, cyan, ultramarine, yellow ochre, a bit of sap green but other greens were mixed

cat on roof and bookracks at 'le magasin dans la rue' (the shop in the street)

taking a look at the book by lamplight  - can't even wait to get home

I feel that one down deep sometimes

a bicycle in a puddle outside a vestibule -  there are little bits here that could be improved but it was all the colors here and there, building it as I went until suddenly it was a bike (le vélo) - so I am scared to get back into it and mess up what was 'created out of the mist' here...

What it looked like last night at 'stage one' - when I put it up because everything was too wet and I just kept dragging the colors around instead of helping

When it Rains Tonight, I'll Still Sing - acrylic painting by Marie Lamb

 'When it Rains Tonight, I'll Still Sing'

acrylic painting

Marie Lamb

 

Two years ago tomorrow, my father passed away, not long after Esme and I arrived from driving all night through Tennessee to South Carolina.   I really just meant to try the three different colors of copper paint together... but as always, feelings and imagery start to come up the further I paint - until the scene becomes something... and then often, becomes something more.

 

Time and Space by Marie Lamb, painting series

The artist at work on painting #2 : Time and Space : 'The Machine'

 

Time and Space #1 : 'Escape Velocity'

completion date: August 5, 2021

This painting was sold at the Arts Round the Square event in September.

I didn't have time to really talk about it with the buyer - and I was nervous!  I told him that I took a compass and ruler to the canvas and worked from one side to the other until it was finished.  That is technically true.  But yes, there is always 'more' behind my work.  This image actually shows concepts for space ships / light speed travel, an observatory and the idea that we will build a pathway to Space.  Below, a countryside scene with houses, bridges and streetlights shows Earth.

Our stall at the Arts Round the Square event in Paris, TN on Sep 25, 2021

 'The Machine' : Imagine a huge turn-crank machine you put a quarter into at the top, and turn the crank and it goes through all the motions, passing the quarter through the gears and shafts until it comes out, like pachinko, at the bottom, altered and reduced to a tiny pearl - that is then plucked up by Charon in his boat and taken away down the River Styx.  Yes, that quarter is your life.  Over Time and Space, being worn down through the Machine.

Pegasus - ready for battle

 

continuing with the same palette - red, black, white and copper metallic and all mixes from the four - Pegasus Ready for Battle and Pegasus Sleeps, 8 by 8 inch limited on multimedia (like very heavy weight coldpress watercolor grade) paper

painted entirely with one brush

"Pegasus Sleeping" 

work by Marie Lamb

8 by 8 inches, acrylic on multimedia paper  

texture shown in side view below

Available:  inquire for purchase through mariemeyer.etsy.com