Lesley Banks (born 1962) is a British artist based in Glasgow.
Biography
Banks was born in
Oxford and studied at the
Glasgow School of Art from 1980 to 1984 and then spent two years, on a travelling scholarship, studying in Europe including several months based in Amsterdam.
On returning to Britain, Banks worked at a gallery in Glasgow until 1989 when she left to concentrate full-time on her art.
Her paintings combine both realistic and surrealist elements.
During 1999 Banks was the artist-in-residence at
Edinburgh Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo, formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an non-profit zoological park in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The land lies on the south facing slopes of Corstorphine Hill, from which it provides extensive v ...
and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Scotland, winning prizes in several of the latter. Both
Aberdeen Art Gallery and the Lillie Art Gallery in
Milngavie hold examples of her paintings.
Beginning in 2016, Banks spent 15 months as Scotland's first ever artist-in-residence of the nation's canals. The project resulted in an exhibition titled "Gongoozler" with over 40 paintings celebrating Scotland's waterways.
References
Further reading
* ''The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present'' by Paul Harris & Julian Halsby, Canongate, 1990,
* ''The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture'' by Peter J.M. McEwan, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994,
External links
*
Artists' website
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1962 births
Living people
20th-century English women artists
21st-century English women artists
Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Artists from Glasgow
Artists from Oxford
English women painters