Born in Hampstead, London in 1957

Trained in Fine Art at Reading University BA Hons 1979 and Nottingham Trent Polytechnic 1988 MFA 

Studied Theology at St Stephen’s House Oxford 1981-4 and began ministry as a Deaconess in 1984 as a Chaplain to Leicester Polytechnic. The subsequent ministry has been in Nottingham and the surrounding area.

Artist Statement

I work as a witness in the Church of England to its beliefs both as a priest and as an artist. I am also its most ardent critic, with a passion for justice, expressed through my art and preaching. 

Suffering Man, carved between 2017-20, is a meditation on human suffering, most notably that which is caused by fellow human beings.

In Lent, we walk the Way of Jesus more keenly and acknowledge his suffering as he lived in our context. In the final moments of his life, he stared out at the crowds who have betrayed his love for them - a broken man. He was about to die.

The icon of Jesus’ brokenness is reflective of our time in this Pandemic after a year of severe separation from each other. The causes of our grief are multiple and developing, but we see in our faith a God who becomes involved with our tragedies and who answers our heartache with tender love, surprising perspectives and hope for all our futures in his resurrection from death.

 Suffering Man will not walk away from us: he stays to the end.

See related work in the Sorrowful Mysteries page on my website: www.jeanlamb.com