Head Study Two

Alison Lambert (b.1957) is one of the foremost British draughtsmen of her generation. Her sustained attention to the human face and figure has produced an oeuvre of powerful and psychologically insightful drawings.

Lambert's working method is led by experiment and discovery. Her densely worked charcoal drawings are built up gradually on thick watercolour paper with accretions of fragmentary sheets, which are drawn on in turn. The resulting effect is part drawing, part low-relief sculpture. Head Study Two, although not on the monumental scale of some of Lambert's drawings, is a complex and compelling work and a powerful study of introspection.