Lainy Allison

My work today is about simplicity in its own order, it is about the importance of security and my own environment today in my life. The narrative I am creating is a true fundamental picture but not in the "˜Trompe l'oeil' style of painting. Just like a landscape, figures are not always included as they would be of no importance to the idea or if the painting is about a person then the face would be of no importance. Historically my subject has come from the political, the humanizing, artful, sceptical even the poetic, all ideas important to me and my studies.

Like a lot of artists I have gone on this journey with brushes and have taken stops at various places to see if I wanted to stay there for a while. I have spent time living overseas and using their different cultures and climates in the subjects at the time of painting this has given me a good "˜infrastructure' in my work at times.

The medium I am working with today is mainly impastoed acrylic and this is applied with a pallet knife. I work mainly on large canvasses nowadays (for various reason one of them being M.S and the effect this painful intrusion has on my hands) I finish the paintings of by framing them in wood that I save from destruction. This wood c...

I have been studying all my life. I still am. At present I am immensley enjoying Art History. This is one topic that will always find you seeking and finding more and more. It will always keep having an impact on me. I have been at Glasgow and Stirling. I currently have work on display in Exhibitions in the wonderful Kingdom of Fife. ART FORARTSAKE ,