Tony Lamb
 | | Three Little Egrets |  SOLD |
|  | | Wait For Me | | SOLD |
|  | | Two Egrets III | | |
|  | | Her Turn to Dance | | SOLD |
|  | | Feeling the Moon | | SOLD |
|  | | Almost Touching III | | |
|  | | The Leap | | |
|  | | Heron | | |
|  | | Egret Reflecting II | | |
|  | | Side by Side IV | | SOLD |
|  | | Little Egrets II | | SOLD |
|  | | Pas de Trois IV | | SOLD |
|  | | Almost Touching | | SOLD |
|  | | Looking Up | | SOLD |
|  | | Three Little Egrets II | | |
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Tony studied History of Art at University then trained at a bronze-foundry in Devon. After becoming vaguely proficient in the various branches of this ancient craft (the ‘lost-wax’ process, which has gone on virtually unchanged for thousands of years) he began to produce his own work around 1976. For his early bronzes he carved plaster originals - in either an abstract or semi-figurative style. He started modelling, as opposed to carving, in 1986. Tastes and influences are catholic - he reveres Giambologna as much as Brancusi.
Having always been fascinated both by relief and translucence, he found a way to combine the two in 2009, and the present series was born. Relief lies somewhere between two and three dimensions, yet it’s impossible to say exactly where - rigorous rules exist, but they are all unwritten. The stone is over 200 million years old, resulting from the evaporation of Jurassic seas; the subsequent compression of the salts, combined with residual water of crystallization, eventually producing the varied and mysterious beauties which we call Alabaster. As for wax, after decades during which it was merely a means to an end, it is now a great relief (pun intended) to employ it as an end in itself.
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