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Alasdair Lindsay

2 – 28 June 2021

Icelandic Cabin

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Icelandic Cabin

acrylic on board
25 x 32cm

Harbour with Lighthouse

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Harbour with Lighthouse

acrylic on paper
38 x 48cm

Cornish Harbour

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Cornish Harbour

acrylic on board
35 x 35cm

Evening Sun Mylor

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Evening Sun Mylor

acrylic on board
35 x 35cm

Going Surfing Gwithian

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Going Surfing Gwithian

acrylic on board
24 x 18cm

Moorings River Fal

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Moorings River Fal

acrylic on canvas
80 x 95cm

Mounts Bay, Summer

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Mounts Bay, Summer

acrylic on board
38 x 40cm

Morning Sun, Tower Bridge

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Morning Sun, Tower Bridge

acrylic on canvas
80 x 150cm

Quayside

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Quayside

acrylic on canvas
80 x 80cm

Swimming Pool by the Sea

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Swimming Pool by the Sea

acrylic on board
40 x 72cm

Waterfront Apartments

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Waterfront Apartments

acrylic on board
60 x 60cm

Waterfront Reflections

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Waterfront Reflections

acrylic on board
30 x 30cm

Bamaluz Beach St Ives

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Bamaluz Beach St Ives

acrylic on board
38 x 37cm

Beached Boats at Sunset

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Beached Boats at Sunset

acrylic on board
18 x 24cm

Morning Surf, Porthleven

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Morning Surf, Porthleven

acrylic on board
18 x 24cm

Lake House

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Lake House

acrylic on board
36 x 36cm

High Tide, Penzance

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High Tide, Penzance

acrylic on canvas
110 x 90cm

Low Tide Newlyn

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Low Tide Newlyn

acrylic on board
30 x 40cm

Clifftop House with Pool

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Clifftop House with Pool

acrylic on canvas
120 x 120cm

Summertime Penzance

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Summertime Penzance

acrylic on board
35 x 35cm

Riverlight Quay, Battersea

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Riverlight Quay, Battersea

acrylic on canvas
50 x 120cm

“Waterfront is a new collection of paintings inspired by places where land meets water.
Seeing these places is part of daily life in Cornwall, and a main focus for my painting practice. Seen from the ground and the air, this new work includes river banks, coastal towns and sea pools. During lockdown since travel was limited, I revisited old sketchbooks to rework compositions and ideas, and these were a starting point for many of the paintings here.
I hope you enjoy the show.” 

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 places he sees everyday. He sometimes sketches on site, but usually paints from memory and through experimentation, with the subject of his paintings often becoming secondary to the emerging pattern of abstract areas.

Alasdair’s paintings have been garnering increasing acclaim since 2002 when he was commissioned to produce 12 paintings and 312 prints of those paintings for permanent display on the luxury Cunard Line Queen Mary II.

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.

His paintings can be found in private collections around the world and the hardback book ‘Shorelines’ about Alasdair’s life and work was published in 2017, which can be purchased from Cornwall Contemporary here. The exhibition catalogue for ‘Waterfront’ can be ordered here.

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