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Alasdair Lindsay

A San Francisco Street
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A San Francisco Street

acrylic on board
61 x 47cm
Across Mounts Bay, Morning

Across Mounts Bay, Morning

acrylic on board
40 x 45cm
£1050
Bude Sea Pool Swimmers and Surfers
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Bude Sea Pool Swimmers and Surfers

acrylic on canvas
80 x 80cm
Cornish Beach

Cornish Beach

acrylic on canvas
60 x 60cm
£1450
Cornish Cove, Evening

Cornish Cove, Evening

acrylic on board
45 x 70cm
£1600
Explorers
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Explorers

acrylic on board
40 x 40cm
Falmouth Docks
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Falmouth Docks

acrylic on board
18 x 24cm
Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco
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Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco

acrylic on board
72 x 61cm
Fishermen’s Huts and Boats, Sunset

Fishermen’s Huts and Boats, Sunset

acrylic on board
40 x 40cm
£1050
Godrevy Island from Gwithian, February Snow

Godrevy Island from Gwithian, February Snow

acrylic on board
35 x 35cm
£795
Golden Gate Bridge
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Golden Gate Bridge

acrylic on board
40 x 40cm
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Shore
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Shore

acrylic on board
45 x 45cm
Gourock Sea Pool
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Gourock Sea Pool

acrylic on canvas
60 x 80cm
Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

acrylic on board
45 x 45cm
£1050
Harbour from Above
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Harbour from Above

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61 x 61cm
Harbour from Above

Harbour from Above

acrylic on board
61 x 52cm
£1500
Harbour Wall Swimmers
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Harbour Wall Swimmers

acrylic on canvas
105 x 105cm
Harbour with Lighthouse

Harbour with Lighthouse

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22 x 58cm
£875
High Tide, Penzance
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High Tide, Penzance

acrylic on canvas
110 x 90cm
Houseboats and Pontoons, Penryn

Houseboats and Pontoons, Penryn

acrylic on board
40 x 81cm
£1750
Houses on the Coast

Houses on the Coast

acrylic on board
35 x 35cm
£850
Icebergs Pool, Bondi Beach

Icebergs Pool, Bondi Beach

acrylic on canvas
80 x 80cm
£2600
Island Lighthouse, Late Sun
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Island Lighthouse, Late Sun

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28 x 50cm
Jubilee Pool Penzance Rough Sea
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Jubilee Pool Penzance Rough Sea

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50 x 50cm
Lake House
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Lake House

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36 x 36cm
Large Ships, Falmouth
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Large Ships, Falmouth

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43 x 40cm
Lighthouse at Dusk
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Lighthouse at Dusk

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45 x 45cm
Lizard Point Lifeboat Station, Summer
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Lizard Point Lifeboat Station, Summer

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50 x 50cm
Lombard Street, San Francisco

Lombard Street, San Francisco

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40 x 40cm
£950
Low Tide Newlyn
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Low Tide Newlyn

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30 x 40cm
Lower Town Quay, St Martins

Lower Town Quay, St Martins

acrylic on canvas
100 x 80cm
£2850
Moorings River Fal
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Moorings River Fal

acrylic on canvas
80 x 95cm
Morning Sun Plymouth

Morning Sun Plymouth

acrylic on canvas
60 x 80cm
£2600
Morning Sun, Tower Bridge
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Morning Sun, Tower Bridge

acrylic on canvas
80 x 150cm
Morning Surfers
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Morning Surfers

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38 x 38cm
Morning Swim, Penzance
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Morning Swim, Penzance

acrylic on canvas
152 x 183cm
Motel with Pool

Motel with Pool

acrylic on canvas
60 x 60cm
£1650
Mounts Bay, Summer
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Mounts Bay, Summer

acrylic on board
38 x 40cm
Mousehole Rockpool
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Mousehole Rockpool

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50 x 40cm
Newlyn Harbour Wall
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Newlyn Harbour Wall

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25 x 35cm
Old Lifeboat House, Newquay
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Old Lifeboat House, Newquay

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34 x 31cm
Old Lifeboat Station, Lizard Point
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Old Lifeboat Station, Lizard Point

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57 x 61cm
Old Quay Newlyn
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Old Quay Newlyn

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40 x 81cm
Passing Shower, St. Ives to Hayle Rivermouth
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Passing Shower, St. Ives to Hayle Rivermouth

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70 x 70cm
Penzance Evening
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Penzance Evening

acrylic on canvas
50 x 120cm
Piscina das Mares, Portugal

Piscina das Mares, Portugal

acrylic on canvas
60 x 60cm
£1650
Pool House
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Pool House

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31 x 61cm
Pool House at Sunset, LA
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Pool House at Sunset, LA

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30 x 30cm
Pool House LA
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Pool House LA

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30 x 30cm
Portreath Harbour Wall
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Portreath Harbour Wall

acrylic on canvas
70 x 90cm
Quayside
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Quayside

acrylic on canvas
80 x 80cm
Rockpool Swimmers at Sunset

Rockpool Swimmers at Sunset

acrylic on board
40 x 40cm
£950
Rockpools and Jubilee Pool Sunset

Rockpools and Jubilee Pool Sunset

acrylic on board
30 x 60cm
£1250
Santa Maria Della Salute, Venice
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Santa Maria Della Salute, Venice

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35 x 35cm
Sea Pool with Surf

Sea Pool with Surf

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40 x 40cm
£1050
Sea Swimmers Penzance
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Sea Swimmers Penzance

acrylic on canvas
80 x 80cm
Ships at Falmouth
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Ships at Falmouth

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45 x 45cm
Small Harbour with Lighthouse
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Small Harbour with Lighthouse

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60 x 60cm
Small Harbour with Sea Pool
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Small Harbour with Sea Pool

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61 x 52cm
St Agnes Pool, Scilly
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St Agnes Pool, Scilly

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30 x 35cm
Summer Chalets, St Ives Bay
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Summer Chalets, St Ives Bay

acrylic on canvas
100 x 100cm
Summer Day Penzance
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Summer Day Penzance

acrylic on canvas
180 x 150cm
Summer Evening Penzance
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Summer Evening Penzance

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42 x 42cm
Summertime Penzance
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Summertime Penzance

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35 x 35cm
Sun on Jubilee Pool
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Sun on Jubilee Pool

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20 x 40cm
Sunrise Penzance
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Sunrise Penzance

acrylic on canvas
75 x 65cm
Swimmers at Bude Sea Pool
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Swimmers at Bude Sea Pool

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30 x 30cm
Tamar Bridge, View from the Train
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Tamar Bridge, View from the Train

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60 x 45cm
The Scillonian at Penzance
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The Scillonian at Penzance

acrylic on canvas
180 x 150cm
The Scillonian Unloading at Hugh Town
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The Scillonian Unloading at Hugh Town

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61 x 61cm
Tidal Pool, Portreath
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Tidal Pool, Portreath

acrylic on board
30 x 60cm
Tinside Lido, Plymouth

Tinside Lido, Plymouth

acrylic on canvas
100 x 150cm
£4750
Tinside Lido, Plymouth Summer Fog

Tinside Lido, Plymouth Summer Fog

acrylic on board
30 x 30cm
£750
Towards the Bay Bridge, San Francisco
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Towards the Bay Bridge, San Francisco

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32 x 30cm
Tower Bridge, Summer Morning
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Tower Bridge, Summer Morning

acrylic on canvas
100 x 100cm
Training Session
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Training Session

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30 x 30cm
Two Boats and a Slipway
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Two Boats and a Slipway

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45 x 45cm
View from the Sea Wall, Porthmeor Beach
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View from the Sea Wall, Porthmeor Beach

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60 x 60cm
Winter Sun, Newlyn
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Winter Sun, Newlyn

acrylic on board
18 x 24cm
Wylie’s Baths, New South Wales

Wylie’s Baths, New South Wales

acrylic on canvas
70 x 70cn
£2200

a photograph of the artist Alasdair Lindsay at his exhibition in Cornwall Contemporary gallery in Penzance, Cornwall

Alasdair Lindsay: I have lived in Cornwall for twenty years, originally coming down from Chester to do a fine art degree at Falmouth College of Art.

Many of my Cornish paintings study the areas where sea meets land. I am drawn to the water – surfing, sea swimming and sailing all giving new perspectives, and for me an important part of enjoying life in Cornwall. Another perspective is viewing the landscape from above; inspired when I was young by seeing Peter Lanyon’s paintings . The grid like forms of aerial landscape and long, narrative shadows have also struck a chord with my way of working. Over the last few years I have painted the Thames from above, along with aerial subjects closer to home around Cornwall.”

Alasdair Lindsay was born in Cheshire in 1975. He came to Cornwall in 1996 to study at Falmouth College of Art and has remained ever since.

His paintings are based on what he sees everyday. He studies these places regularly and sometimes sketches on site, although he usually paints from memory and through experimentation and decisions are based on instinct rather than theory. Often the subject of his paintings becomes secondary to the emerging pattern of abstract areas, which he says, must be evaluated and perhaps edited for the sake of the overall composition.

Commissions include 12 paintings and 312 prints of those paintings for permanent display on the luxury Cunard Line Queen Mary II in 2012.

In 2004 he won 2nd prize in the prestigious Hunting Art Prize and was also selected to exhibit in the Hunting Art Prize in 2000, 2004 and 2005. In 2007 his work was exhibited in the Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition at Mall Galleries, London.

In 2012 he produced a number of aerial view paintings of bridges across The Thames in London after chartering a helicopter to provide source material for the project. Cornwall Contemporary staged the subsequent exhibition of the paintings in Shoreditch, London which was an incredibly successful show and Alasdair continues to be inspired by aerial views of Cornwall and cities. He uses a drone to capture unseen views of Cornwall which he then uses as source material for his paintings which have become collected internationally. He is also a keen surfer and sailor and living close to the water remains one of his foremost inspirations for his work.

Alasdair has become one of the most highly collected artists working in Cornwall and we regularly ship his paintings to international collectors in the US and the rest of the world.

The hardback book ‘Shorelines’ about Alasdair’s life and work was published in 2017.  You can order your copy here

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