MAIN, Irene Lesley Contemporary
"The Old Horseshoe Walk"
Oil on board
14x12 inches
£975
signed
Biography
Lesley Main was born in Glasgow and educated there at the Park School. She studied drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art from 1976 until graduating in 1980 (under Donaldson, Robertson, Shanks and Rae), the Patrick Allan-Fraser School of Art at Hospitalfield (to which she won a scholarship) and Italy. She has travelled extensively throughout Europe and America, and has exhibited widely in one-woman and group exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Europe and America. She is a full-time painter, a winner of the Hiram Walker Award and the Lauder Award, and has a studio in Glasgow and Athens.
Her work is well-known in Scotland and is characterised by its emphasis on light and shade, the use of rich colour and sensuous handling of paint. She has been strongly influenced by the Scottish Colourists and The Glasgow School. Her great love of nature underpins her joie de vivre and essential optimism, of which her work is a direct and fluent complement and statement.
