Fine Art, Iconography, Illustration & Graphic Design

FINE ART:
Christine Lamb's illuminated gold-gilded watercolors, egg tempera paintings and icons create a sense of spiritual enchantment. The vivid colors, striking iconographic composition and vibrant 22k gold-gilded elements depict animals, nature and spirit in archetypical balance. These icons witness the Soul of our Planet in spiritual timelessness. Iconographic paintings are about Heart—essence of each animal or spiritual being representing a window between Heaven and Earth in the manner the ancients understood Spirit in Nature.

Christine's artwork, was exhibited on both coasts, from solo exhibits at Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle, Bellevue Art Museum and others to Jadite Galleries in New York City. She participated in several engaging thematic group exhibits at the Bellevue Art Museum, Watcom Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Seattle Bumbershoot Festival, Biennial International De L'Image, Epinal, France and the faculty exhibit at North Seattle Community College. Her work is found in both the City of Seattle 1% for Art Collection and the Univerisity of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) Collection of Northwest Artists and many private collections. Click here to view the Fine Art Gallery. Complete Fine Art Resume available upon request.

ILLUSTRATION:
Illustration walks between fine art and design. Christine has incorporated her unique, gold-gilded fine art style into award winning illustrations. Her children's book illustrations for A Tale of Two Rice Birds written by Clare Hodgson Meeker and published by Sasquatch Books won the ABA/CBC American Booksellers Pick and the prestigious New Yorker Magazine's Children's Book Year-End Review (active since 1911). This followed many national reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal*, The Horn Book Guide to Young Readers*, International Examiner Literary Review and others. A Tale of Two Rice Birds has a 5 Star Rating from Amazon.com and is a Recommended Anti-Bais Multicultural Children's Book by the ADL (Anti Defamation League®).

Christine's brilliantly colored and gilded paintings have been published as greeting cards, a calendar of Contemporary Women Artists and in two Contemporary Women Artists books by Pomegranate Publishing. Her nature illustrations have been published by Orion Nature Quarterly, The EarthLight Journal and the New Age Journal magazines. Christine Lamb skillfully incorporates her fine art with illustration using her graphic design skills to meet the needs of publishers, editors, art directors, product and packaging clients. * See Teaching Art page. Complete Commercial Art Resume available upon request.

GRAPHIC DESIGN:
Christine Lamb's graphic design work is a statement to her skillful versatility and creativity. Like her radiant fine art and illustration style, Christine approaches her commercial graphic design with the same diligence and attention to detail. She carefully weaves her client's needs into eye-catching corporate design, product and packaging identity lines for both children and adult markets.

Christine has successfully worked in both public and private sector environments. She created the corporate logo and communications graphics for Seattle City Light (one of America's top 10 utilities) and designed visitor center displays, mural, signs, kiosks for Seattle City Light's Gorge, Diablo, Ross and Boundry Bay hydroelectric power plants including being a team designer for the 200 million dollar Lucky Peak Dam Visitor Center in Boise, Idaho.

Christine's colorful and distinctive product and promotional designs for the national tourist/souvenir industry through Smith Western Company for the Mirage, Treasure Island and Hilton Resorts in Las Vegas, The Salish Lodge, Universal Studios, Kennedy Space Center, Space Needle®, Sea World of California, Yosemite National Park, Hershey's and other high profile clients.

Toy, garden, gift product and packaging identity designs for several national markets through the Toysmith Group® included several New York Toy Fair packaging line displays, Garden at Home® and Da Mert®, Dairy Queen® National and Regional Kids Meals Programs, Discovery Channel, Borders Books & Music, Barnes & Nobel Booksellers, Kennedy Space Center, Cost Plus, Runza® and many independent toy and gift shops across America.

Book jacket designs for both cloth trade, paperback and audio book along with creating promotional book sales materials for New Sage Press, WW Norton, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux gives Christine comfortable experiences with editors, art directors, authors and publishers. Her graphic design experiences helped Christine as an illustrator for Sasquatch Books during her illustration process of A Tale of Two Rice Birds. Click here to view the Commercial Art Gallery. A full Commercial Art Resume is available upon request.