Lincoln Seligman | 30th April - 24th May 2025
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''I’ve been exhibiting with the Osborne Studio Gallery for many years, during which time Geoffrey has generously indulged my eclectic - some might say random - approach to subject matter. I’ve always loved travel, and if there is cohesion in this exhibition, then my recent travels are what pull it together, plus a love of colour in which I marinate my memories.
After twenty years working around the world on large installations and hanging sculptures in new buildings, I returned to figurative painting some fifteen years ago. My time in Hong Kong, still flying in a fairly straight line on the way out and back, gave me time to spend in India and Sri Lanka. This became an annual adventure and I was soon entranced by both countries as wonderful places to paint, but also as such beguiling retreats from the humdrum that none of it really seems like work. Likewise, I have found pieces of the English and Italian countryside, and it’s flora, that cry out to be painted. That is never a hardship posting either…
The painting process is inevitably solitary and subjective, objectivity and consensus don’t come into it. In this exhibition the viewer might, at first glance, only see what I’ve chosen to put on canvas from my own discovery of new landscapes and novel experiences. But I like to include an element of narrative in the image which, although fixed in one moment, has a past and a future where the viewer can bring their own imagination to bear. I hope that these paintings not only please the eye, but encourage that element of conjecture.
In that way we can travel together.''
