Recent Paintings

Lyndsey Ingram is pleased to present 'Stephen Chambers: Recent Paintings', the artist’s inaugural exhibition at the gallery. The presentation will focus primarily on two series of oil paintings; the Berlin Flowers and the Obsidian Mirrors.

Both bodies of work are painted in oil with the colour and compositional clarity that defines Chambers’ wider oeuvre and are extremely complex. Chambers begins by painting the flowers with intense precision, only adding the background once he is satisfied with the vase and various bloom. Though their subject matter is traditional, Chambers uses the concept of the still life as a way of capturing a strange moment in time as well as recording the poignancy of the short lifespan of a vase of flowers. There is as much attention placed on the branches, broken stems and wilting stalks as there is on flowers within the vases. It is a deliberate attempt of the artist to transpose the idea of the still life.