Stephen Chambers

Title: Stephen Chambers

Author: Stephen Chambers and Andrew Lambirth

List price: £40.00

ISBN: 978 0 906 290 941

Description: Stephen Chambers is one of the painter Royal Academicians who has emerged as one of the most challenging and resourceful artists of his generation with work in both public and private collections across the world. This book explains his enthusiasms and influences and showcases his work from early to the present. As Andrew Lambirth writes “Chambers wants to reveal some of the more interesting aspects of life we might otherwise miss…Beauty in the hands of Stephen Chambers is often subversive but always strangely uplifting. His paintings with their unusual colour combinations and frequently intricate patterns excite the mind and refresh the spirit.” Chambers’ work is instantly recognizable from its intense colours and clean lines, and as the critic Tim Hilton pointed out years ago, he is really an abstract painter who makes very good use of figurative elements.

Author: Stephen Chambers studied at Winchester School of Art from 1978-79 and St Martin’s School of Art from 1979-82. He graduated from Chelsea School of Art with a Masters Degree in 1983, and has won a Rome Scholarship, a Fellowship of Winchester School of Art and a Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Travelling Award. He lives and works in London. Andrew Lambirth has written monographs on Ken Kiff L.S. Lowry, Craigie Aitchison and R.B. Kitaj and Maggi Hambling. He is art critic of The Spectator and has written for a wide range of publications including The Sunday Times and The Independent. From 1990-2002 he was Contributing Editor of RA, The Royal Academy of Arts magazine