Carol Lambert is an award-winning artist, trained in the tradition of Classical Realism. Her method is based on centuries-old principles of harmony, deep observation, and technical accomplishment. She combines the sensuality and precision of early classical painters with a 21st century sensibility.

Her work emphasizes the sometimes stark, durable beauty of ordinary objects and quiet places. She reminds the viewer of the experiential core of human existence. Her work invites us to pause, breathe, and take our bearings.

Artistic Influences

Carol Lambert's first artistic influences were her grandparents: Jack Lambert, a portrait artist and political cartoonist, and Flora Schaefer Lambert, a medical illustrator. Other primary sources of inspiration have been the Dutch Still Life painters of the 17th century, the 19th century American painter Raphaelle Peale, and numerous American Landscape painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Other than painting...

Carol Lambert is an ocean kayaker and a former whitewater guide. She has a PhD in clinical psychology, and has studied martial arts for over 20 years. At various times in her life, she has lived in a Paris apartment, an English cottage, a house on the Baltic, a room in Rome, a fishing boat in Kodiak, and a Quonset hut. She currently lives in Anchorage.

She volunteers at a wild bird rehabilitation center, caring for and observing eagles, ravens, hawks, owls and falcons, among other species. She is an enthusiastic reader of Neal Stephenson's novels.

Visitors to her studio are most likely to hear latin dance music or traditional blues. The woman artist she most admires is Tove Jansson, the Finnish writer and illustrator. She has almost always owned a small boat.