RADIANCE, AN OIL BY IRENE LESLEY MAIN

* IRENE LESLEY MAIN (SCOTTISH b. 1959),
RADIANCE
oil on board, signed and dated 1981, titled and dated label verso
image size 54cm x 77cm, overall size 68cm x 91cm
Framed and under glass
Artist's label verso.
Note: 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 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. Main 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. The artist 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.