ABOUT ME

I AM NOT CAROLINE LAMB by CAROLYN LAMB. 2014 . Oil on canvas. 20 x 25.5cm.
People often do not realise that Carolyn and Caroline are different names. It is doubly difficult when your full name closely resembles someone more famous.
I used this portrait sitting to get both of us into one painting. I am thinking about years of having to correct people about my name.
I AM NOT CAROLINE LAMB. Double Portrait: Lady Caroline Lamb by Sir Thomas Lawrence (c.1820) and Carolyn Lamb self portrait (2014).
I painted this picture from life in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery painting store. I using a mirror to reflect myself sitting in front of the original oil portrait of the infamous Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron, which hangs on the racks behind me.
The wooden transit crate behind my head represents my career in Bristol where I live. I completed this just before leaving my job as painting conservator at Bristol Museums, Libraries and Archives to concentrate more on my painting
I painted this picture from life in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery painting store. I using a mirror to reflect myself sitting in front of the original oil portrait of the infamous Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron, which hangs on the racks behind me.
The wooden transit crate behind my head represents my career in Bristol where I live. I completed this just before leaving my job as painting conservator at Bristol Museums, Libraries and Archives to concentrate more on my painting

I was born in Scotland and originally trained in Fine Art on the joint Honours degree course run by Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art. Further training at the Tate Gallery and Courtauld Institute of Art as a painting conservator led to an arts career restoring paintings alongside my work as an artist.
I use a variety of art materials. I prefer painting in oils, but also use watercolours, acrylics, drawing media, print-making (etchings) - whatever seems right at the time.