Biography
Nigel Lambourne (Croydon, Surrey 1919 - d. 1988) studied in London at Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts (1934-37); at Royal College of Art with Robert Austin and Malcolm Osborne (1937-39). He met Barbara Ward Standen, who became his wife in 1942. After Army service in World War II, completed his degree course at Royal College of Art. Awarded the Medal for Draughtsmanship and the Engraver and Lithographers Diploma. Lambourne taught at Isleworth Evening Institute, later at Guildford College of Art (1951-61) and Leicester Polytechnic (1962-72). In the late 1940s he began to establish himself as an illustrator of books for the Folio Society and in he 1947 exhibited at the Colnaghi Gallery. His first solo show of drawings was held at Kensington Art Gallery in 1949, later one man exhibitions included Wilton and Zwemmer Galleries. In 1950-51 he worked on the Festival of Britain South Bank Exhibition. In 1950 Lambourne undertook a drawing expedition to Antwerp with the painter and friend Clifford Hall (1904-1973). In 1951 he exhibited with Hall and John Buckland Wright (1897-1954) (all three artists used to share the cost of a model) at the Colnaghi Gallery. Victoria Art Gallery in Bath held a retrospective exhibition in 1992 and Abbott and Holder held an exhibition in 2005.
