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Exhibition of Paintings by Steven Lindsay
For the duration of the Edinburgh Festival, we present a rare solo collection of paintings by the dynamic and multi-talented Scottish artist Steven Lindsay.
A masterclass in chiaroscuro, this collection combines the essence of Steven’s inspiration by the Dutch masters, with similarly inspiring artists such as Joshua Reynolds The exhibition shares its title with the artist ’s recent album ‘Interlopers’ from his prominent musical career.
“I never tire of painting the human skin and the effect of light and shade on the face and I believe that painting and drawing the human figure is essential to the understanding of form as an artist My painting has evolved by returning to the same subject over and over and developing how I see it and how best to represent it on the canvas Painting, as well as being a process of mark making, is also one of problem solving ”
In this exhibition, he has chosen to place himself as model in some masterpieces from the past which, as well as a challenge, was also a source of some amusement to him Steven says, “ The exhibition title, Interloper, probably best describes my act of inhabiting their world ”
‘I hear a voice, echoing from the past, it ’s calling out nothing’s ever gonna last ’
Lyric from the song ‘Nothing will ever be the same again’, from the Steven Lindsay music album, Interlopers 2021 © Secondswimmer/Chrysalis records
Meet Steven at our exhibition opening with refreshments Saturday 3 August 2 - 4pm i n t e r l o p e r
front cover Steven Lindsay pr shot for his album, Interlopers right Rembrandtesque, oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm
Steven Lindsay
Steven Lindsay studied painting at Glasgow School of Art in the 80s On leaving, he embarked on a successful career as a recording artist in the music industry with the band The Big Dish, and more recently as a solo artist. The similarities Steven finds between music and painting are striking, in the composition, subject matter, relative values, rhythm, harmony, and even choosing a title for a particular piece
Steven returned to his first love of visual art – almost like a calling – and became a full time painter in 2011. He is very much an artist in ascendance who, although obviously from the European figurative tradition, brings an exciting take on that genre The drawing and brushwork is classical yet used in an utterly modern context, sometimes demanding, sometimes humorous and always thought provoking. His work is now held privately and publically in collections across the UK, Europe, North America and the Far East
Estelle Lovatt, the art critic featured on the BBC Radio 2 Arts Show, described his work as:
“…like revisiting Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age of painterly skill against the Colour Field of Rothko, all intertwined with an aesthetic twist of contemporary, complex-simplicity Lindsay using his paintbrush eloquently, capturing painterly conversations between the art history giants of a bygone age and a bygone art.”
He lives and works in Glasgow.
Reynoldsesque, oil on canvas, 70 x 90cm
