This month’s exhibition in Fine Art is a collection of paintings by West Lothian artist Colin Povey. Colin describes his work as the evolution of a personal visual language.
“My paintings are informed by a wide range of artists, encompassing influences as far apart as 18th Century English landscape and portrait painter, Thomas Gainsborough, and neo-expressionist Cecily Brown.
I do not follow any strict rules when I paint but feel my way until I find the right balance, harmony and poetry in the paint. My paintbrush searches and explores the world that it is experiencing, discovering its rhythms and producing a dynamic, coherent surface of paint. I strive for a lyrical flow, that carries calm, considered brushstrokes alongside active, spontaneous passages of paint.”
The exhibition runs in the Fine Art Library, George IV Bridge until 30th April.
