20^th Century Spanish
 
After studying at IADE (Institución Artística de Enseñanza), Lamas established her position as an artist and was one of the founding members of the Atlántica group which included, among others, her husband-to-be Antón Patiño, Antón Lamazares and José María Freixanes, both active players in the renewal of Galicia’s art scene. Lamas also worked as a graphic designer.

Lamas’ painting is based on a tension instilled by large, dense, vibrant or opaque areas of contrasting colour, and a composition deploying a highly personal “primitive” symbolism full of moons, fish, cats, snakes, or human evocations.

In the mid 1980s, the artist set out on an evolutionary process towards a greater constructive synthesis that involved a purging of colours, tones and composition, although maintaining her iconography as well as a frontal disposition in the overall structure of the composition.

Around 1991, she began to superimpose pure colours with geometric forms on fragmented images of walls with printed characters and numbers. In that new body of work, the image is circumscribed by a plane which extends beyond the boundaries of the picture itself. In 1993 there was a further evolution in the relationship between colour and composition, expressed through the addition of new signs to her signature iconography.

Lamas has exhibited widely both in solo and group shows in Spain and abroad, and her works are included in major collections and museums.