Lydia Hamblet’s practice spans painting, print, drawing and public installation. Reflecting on shared encounters, spaces and environments, her work invites the viewer to consider contemporary life, not in its traditional pop language but rather through the very energies and situations that bring it into being.
Marcel Proust writes ‘We relive our past years not in their continuous sequence, day by day, but in a memory focused upon the coolness or the sunshine of some morning or afternoon.’ Ongoing research within Hamblet’s work draws upon personal narratives around the weather. Colour and form take precedence, with a powerful sense of movement generated through her large-scale works. Despite the differences in each artist’s individual world, they unite over a shared sense of universality. A universality to be free with their mediums, to focus on composition, depth, subject matter and painting, whilst still communicating the inner worlds of each artist.