Artist Bio
Lydia Hamblet (b.1995, Kent, UK) received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London (UK) in 2020, having previously studied at Camberwell College of Arts, London (UK).
Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Meeting Place at Galleria Palla Blu, San Remo (IT), Noises in the Florid Sky at Pictorum Gallery, London (UK), Breeze at Enari Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) and Two Months of Something at AMP Gallery, London (UK).
Hamblet’s work has also been featured in numerous group shows including Lull’d In These Flowers, curated by Vittoria Beltrame, at Soho Revue, London (UK), Poetry of the Earth, at Wilder Gallery, London (UK), Two and A Journey Into the Unknown, at Haricot Gallery, London (UK), Flares in the Darkroom, at The Who Gallery, London (UK), Taking A Broom to the Wasp’s Nest, at Pictorum Gallery, London (UK).
Hamblet’s work has been acquired by several public and private collections, including Perez Art Museum, Miami (USA) and Clifford Chance, London (UK). She was also commissioned to create a large-scale permanent public work for the Canary Wharf Art Trail, London (UK).
Statement
Lydia Hamblet’s abstract paintings question how light can be translated on the surface of a canvas. Recent work explores this in the context of the mountain, a longstanding subject of Hamblet’s works which has been explored in more depth after recent trips to Mt. Fuji and Mt. Vesuvius. Light dances across the surface of the mountain; different times, weathers and memories are reflected on the terrain. Ruskin viewed mountains as “cathedrals of the earth”, and that in order to understand light, you must spend time understanding the mountains.