Cornwall and London from above

 I visited the gallery today to take some photos before the show ends in a few days. General concensus is its been a very well recieved and succesful exhibition so Neil, Sarah and I are all very happy with how its gone. I was especially surprised how much interest there was in my London paintings; and I will naturally be painting more of them for the London show in July (I'm working on one of Westminster bridge and Parliament at the moment ).

Some of Neil's work

                                            

  Gallery director Sarah                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

    

Tess having a look round

Art critic from the Cornishman ,Frank Rhurmund

What all exhibiting artists like to see - the magic red dots.                     

St Endellion festival cover

I was happy to be asked to provide the cover image for this Easters' St Endellion music festival , a week long calendar of classical, choral and jazz music which has attracted great talents to Cornwall since its conception in 1973. Its still going strong with many supporters including Prince Charles who wrote the introduction to the catalogue. I will hopefully be providing the summer catalogue image as well.
The painting is called Cornish Harbour and is available for sale here : http://www.beside-the-wave.co.uk/new/alasdairlindsaypg2.html

New catalogue

Just got my new catalogue for the two man show with Neil Pinkett. Its good to show with Neil as I like his work and we have similar interests in what we want to paint. The show goes from the 6th - 30 th april and for those who want a preview the private view is on Easter sunday 10.30 am - 12.30 . Don't worry if you don't have an invite you won't be turned away !

Hayle chalets and Penzance harbour

Here are a couple of paintings which were finished too late to make it into the catalogue for my upcoming Cornwall Contemporary show. There will be 17 paintings of mine in the show so only less than half feature in the catalogue.
I was lucky to be given a load of images of Cornwall from the air from my neighbour Nova who had a scenic flight for her birthday and took around 100 photos ! With special focus on Hayle and St Ives coastlines , and usefully for me there were photos of her chalet amongst the others on Hayle towans. Added to that it looked like perfect weather.

Penzance harbour 35x50 cm
Penzance

Hayle chalets, low tide 55x55 cm. The lines at the top should be straight - just my poor photography.

Chalets, Hayle Towans .Photos by Nova.

Cornwall from the air

Ends with my local beach - and the best ! at Hayle

new paintings

St Agnes lighthouse, Scilly . 100 x 100 cm acrylic on canvas.

Cornish coastline . 100 x 100 cm ,acrylic on canvas.

These are two new paintings for my upcoming aerial view show at Penzance gallery Cornwall Contemporary starting on 6th April. www.cornwallcontemporary.com

Working drawing for St Agnes lighthouse

Accident posters

Tom Ekersley

I really like these health and safety posters from the 40s and 50s ; dealing with in many cases mundane problems like worn tools and not wearing safety gear - but great and inspired pieces of graphic design. The posters were commissioned by the Royal society for the prevention of accidents and would have been hung in factories and dockyards etc, and like most posters of the era were throwaway items so few survive now.

Abram Games

Tom Ekersley

Arnold Rothholtz

Tom Ekersley

Arnold Rothholtz

Tom Ekersley

Manfred Reiss

Robin Day, 1950s. Robin is better known as one of Britain's most successful mid century furniture designers including his plastic moulded polyprop chair which sold in millions.