Lot 295 - Lesley Banks - In Camogli

Acrylic and watercolour on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Lesley Banks is a contemporary artist. Her work is informed by a skill-based classical training in observational painting and drawing, which is evident in her figurative interiors and more recent canal and urban landscape paintings. She works predominantly with oil on canvas and more recently watercolour and acrylic on paper.

Education
1980–1984
Glasgow School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Studio 261, Glasgow

2020
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge

2019
Lillie Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

2018
Eden Court, Inverness

2017
The Park Gallery, Falkirk

Group Exhibitions
2024
Annual Open, Bath Society of Artists
198th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy
London Art Fair

2023
Objects of Desire, Calendar House, Falkirk
ING Discerning Eye
Jackson’s Art Prize, longlisted
SWA Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London
Scottish Landscape Awards, longlisted

2022
Scottish Portrait Awards, Edinburgh
Inspired, Fidra Fine Art, Gullane

2021
Art in Mind, Glasgow Print Studio

2020
21st Century Women, The Backdoor Gallery, Clydebank

Awards
2024
The Knox Award, PAI Annual Exhibition

2017
Paisley Drawing Competition, Walker Laird Award

2015
Open Project Funding, Creative Scotland

Gallery Representation
Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Studio 261, Glasgow, Scotland
Roger Bilcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow

Public Collections
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Perth Art Gallery and Museum, Perth, Scotland
Lillie Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Stirling, Scotland
Scottish Canals
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Falkirk Council Collection, Scotland
East Dunbartonshire Council, Scotland
Leicester Schools Collection, England

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Two watercolour/acrylic paintings exploring "after dark" themes in the Cinque Terre in Italy. I am working on a series of nocturne paintings, which necessitates muted tones and hazy light effects.