The Packard Reath Gallery, Delaware’s only fine art photography gallery, invites you to attend the opening of Amy Lamb: Small Wonders on Saturday, November 24th from 4 to 6 pm. Amy Lamb will attend the champagne reception in celebration of her work and the Packard Reath Gallery’s 9th year in business.

Working with a medium-format Hasselblad camera with film that captures all the tonal shadings of each flower, Amy Lamb transforms close-up photographs of flowers and fruit into large, lush portraits of nature’s splendor. She captures the beauty and vividness of a natural world that we often pass by and even more often overlook. Her photographs draw us into the exquisite designs and radiant colors that lie in the hidden life of flowers. Most of us look at a flower and view it in its entirety. Lamb focuses her camera so closely to the edge of a petal or the contrasting tip of a stamen that suddenly we see breathtaking beauty that rivets our attention and moves our soul.

“Lamb’s images are both scientifically precise and poetically imagined, a combination that places her solidly in the tradition of such pioneering botanical innovators as Imogen Cunninghan and Robert Mapplethorpe.” Glenn McNatt Art Critic Baltimore Sun

For photographer Amy lamb, discovering the hidden life of flowers is her calling and her passion. After earning her doctorate in biology, she worked as a biologist for the National Institutes of Health. Mixing a scientist’s attention to detail and form with the artist’s passion for design and color, she produces images that capture perspectives of these fleeting treasures few of us would ever notice. In her photographs, we see not only the splendor of the bloom but also the exquisite intricacy and architecture of nature. “I photograph a flower as one would create a portrait, to try to capture its essence.” Amy Lamb

This show will feature new images and old favorites in a small format that makes them ideal for holiday shoppers and collectors. This show will remain on view through the first of January. The gallery is open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays through December and always by appointment.

Call 302-644-7513 for further information about this show.