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Lesley Hope Main, B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art
Irene
Lesley Hope Main was born in Glasgow. 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 in Italy.
She has travelled extensively throughout Europe, America and Africa
and has exhibited widely in one-person 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 studios in Glasgow,
Athens and Brodick, Isle of Arran.
Lesley
Main has been strongly influenced by the Scottish Colourists (in particular,
J. D. Fergusson) and the Glasgow School, with its emphasis on light
and shade, use of colour and sensuous handling of paint, and traditional
pursuit of academic excellence.
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.
Lesley
Main's work is well-known, and is in public and private collections
world- wide, including those of:
H.R.H. Diana, Princess of Wales;
Allied Irish Bank; Argyll Group; Australian Capital Equity;
Bank of Ireland; British Petroleum; Charterhouse Development Capital; Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers International; Clyde Port Authority; Commonwealth Development Corporation; Robert Fleming Holdings; Henry Ford Foundation; G. K. Goh; Gouldens; Iomart Group;
Lam Soon Group; Lanitis Development; Lithgow Group;
John Makepeace; Mercury Asset Management; Metropole Group; Prudential Corporation; BWD Rensburg; Royal Bank of Scotland;
Save and Prosper; Scottish Arts Council; Herbert Smith; South African Department of Foreign Affairs; Standard Life; Deloitte Touche;
University of Strathclyde; Warwick Arts Trust; Yarrow.
Selected Galleries - Solo and Group Exhibitions:
RA, RSA, RGI ,SSA, SSWA,GSWA.
Bernard Jacobson
Gallery, London; Bruton Gallery, Bath; Calton Gallery, Edinburgh; Richard
Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh and Bath; Clarges Gallery, London; Collins
Gallery, Strathclyde University, Glasgow; Compass Gallery, Glasgow;
Conservation Management, London; Courcoux and Courcoux Contemporary
Art, Hampshire; Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow;. Duncan R Miller Fine
Arts, London; Ewan Mundy Fine Art, Glasgow; Falle Fine Art, Jersey;
The Fine Art Society, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh; Flying Colours,
London; Hanover Fine Arts, Edinburgh; Igal Yawetz, London; Jonathan
Poole, London; Main Fine Art, Glasgow; Malcolm Innes Gallery, London
and Edinburgh; Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff; Mercury Gallery, London
and Edinburgh; Miles Lamdin Gallery, London; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh;
Portland Gallery, London; Soloman Gallery, London; The Torrance Gallery,
Edinburgh; William Hardie Gallery, Glasgow.
Regional
Paul Hayes Gallery,
Auchterarder; Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr; Rozelle House, Ayr; McLean Museum
and Art Gallery, Greenock; Macaulay Gallery, Stenton; Stirling Smith
Art Gallery and Museum; Paisley Museum and Art Galleries; Peter Hedley
Gallery, Dorset.
Art Fairs
The Bath Art Fair;
The London International
Art Fair, Olympia; The 20th Century Art Fair, The Royal College of Art;
The Harrogate Art Fair; The Dublin Art Fair; The York Art Fair; The
Edinburgh Art Fair; The Glasgow Art Fair.
International
Tom Robinson-Okane
Galleries, The University of Houston, Texas; Open Circle, Nürnberg,
Germany; The Martin Dowds Gallery, Hong Kong; AGS Fine Art, New York,
San Francisco,
Las Vegas, Oregon, Florida, Toronto.
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