Elspeth Lamb RSA
Biography
Elspeth Lamb studied at Glasgow School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, University of New Mexico USA, her main specialism being printmaking. She is an elected RSA Academician, and an elected member of the Society of Scottish Artists and Royal Glasgow Institute, and has taught several workshops in lithography at the Joan Miro Foundation in Mallorca, Spain.
She has won several awards for her work, which is also included in major collections such as the Japanese Consular Collection, The British Council, the MAG Collection, and the Joan Miro Foundation Collection, as well as being represented in several Art Galleries and Museums both in the UK and abroad.
For 21 years she taught at the Edinburgh College of Art, latterly as Head of the Department of Printmaking and she has been visiting lecturer at many colleges in the UK including the Glasgow School of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College Dundee and Middlesex University. She chose to give up all academic teaching commitments in 1999 to pursue her artistic career; a recent one-person exhibition was at A.I.R. Gallery in Chelsea, New York City during 2004. Her most recent residencies have been in Bulgaria, Canada and Newfoundland, and she exhibits regularly at home and abroad.
Elspeth studied the art of moku hanga printing in Japan with master craftsmen during 2000, where she was selected to be one of six international artists to participate in a residency based on Awaji Island. Since then, she has returned twice to study Japanese papermaking: this research was related to her publication, “Papermaking for Printmakers” which was published by A&C Black, London, in May 2006. Visit www.acblack.com
During 2010 she worked with Professor Nik Semenoff in Canada researching the waterless lithography process and she hopes to conduct workshops in this technique from her Glasgow studio Bon a Tirer .
As a freelance artist, she has organized and taught printmaking and papermaking workshops at many art centres and schools across the UK , such as Taigh Chearsabhagh, in North Uist, the Leith School of Art, Edinburgh, the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University and Grays School of Art. She works with children and adults of all ages.
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images :
top of page : Alice - electrostatic print
54 ins x 54 ins
left: Gingko: lithograph
10 ins x 20 ins
Elspeth Lamb is an artist who works across several art forms: printmaking, digital prints, papermaking and artists’ books.
She is currently working on a suite of lithographs entitled ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ named after the poems of Baudelaire. These images are not intended to be narrative in any sense, but take on flower-like forms and are inspired to some degree by the Dutch Vanitas school of painting They are printed from stone and incorporate elements of Japanese colle papers.
Since leaving Edinburgh College of Art in 1999 to pursue her own work and research, as a freelance artist and educator she has organized and taught printmaking and papermaking workshops at many art colleges, art centres and schools across the UK and abroad including the Leith School of Art Edinburgh, the Hunterian Museum Glasgow University, St. Michaels Print Shop, St. Johns Newfoundland and the Joan y Pilar Miro Foundation, Spain.
In 2009 she was artist in residence at the prestigious Miro Foundation workshops in Mallorca where she had been invited to produce suites of prints in various media
In 2010 she conducted a summer school workshop ( Japanese moku hanga woodblock printing, drypoint etching, collagraph printing) at Glasgow University with Charmian Pollok to coincide with an exhibition of Edvard Munch, and a summer school in papermaking techniques for Grays School of Art in Aberdeen.
During April 2011 she will teach a 2 day paper pulp workshop at Leith School of Art. Bookings can be confirmed at :
In June 2011 she will present a paper at the First International Conference of Mokuhanga Print in Kyoto Japan
and she will exhibit work at the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries during the 2011 Edinburgh Festival as part of a Japan themed exhibition.
Examples of her prints and work may be viewed on the following web pages and all work is for sale. Please email for details and prices.Video footage of the artist at work may be viewed on Google Video.
