Lesley Banks

Biography

Lesley Banks was born in 1962 in Oxford, the family moving back to Scotland soon after. She trained at Glasgow School of Art in the Drawing and Painting Department tutored by Barbara Rae and Jack Knox. Her work is informed by a skill based classical training in observation painting and drawing which is evident in her figurative interiors and more recent canal and urban landscape paintings. With a keen interest and knowledge of art history there is a significant reference in her work to painters such as Edward Hooper and Vermeer albeit from a female perspective. The recipient of numerous awards, her work is held in several public collections including Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow. 1980-84 Glasgow School of Art RESIDENCES 2016 - 2019 Artist in Residence at Scottish Canals, Gongoozler Project. 1999 - Artist in Residence at Edinburgh Zoo, Urban Landscape Project. WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTION Aberdeen Art Gallery Perth Museum and Art Gallery Lillie Museum and Art Gallery Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery University of Strathclyde Scottish Canals Leicester Schools Collection East Dunbartonshire Council Falkirk Council Collection