The Atelier Gallery

Lex McFadyen, who lives between both Argyll, Scotland and Burgundy, France, is an established and well-renowned Scottish creative. Graduating from the Glasgow School of Art with an Honours degree in Fine Art, Lex has expanded his artistic education and practice greatly over the years. For 17 years Lex ran a successful fashion design business, creating top end couture ranges and acting as consultant to large-scale manufactures in the UK and abroad. He has shown collections in New York, Paris, Amsterdam.

Lex returned to painting and drawing in 2002 and has since gained vast popularity and following. Lex’s vibrant, colourful and impactful oil paintings provide a unique and contemporary approach, with beautiful and bold use of colour with strong contrasting outlines. His approach results in the creation of striking domestic scenes, portraits, sculptures and still lifes.

Over the years, Lex has received vast praise and recognition through a multitude of prestigious awards. Notable prizes include the receipt of the PF Charitable Trust Award, the major prize at the Visual Arts Scotland Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. In addition, in 2020, he was the recipient of the Glasgow Art Club Award at the 132nd Paisley Art Institute Exhibition.

Iain Holman is a Scottish portrait and figurative artist, born in Inverness and now working from his studio in the town of Biggar, South Lanarkshire. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the Open College of the Arts (UCA) in 2016, and is now exhibiting in selected galleries in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling and Dublin. His work was also on show at the Mall Galleries in London and he has appeared in a number of art publications including the International Artist Magazine.

Iain’s inspiration comes from the enduring fascination with the human form, sourcing his references from either studio created poses or candid images from everyday life. He blends realism with abstraction, using oils on canvas to create painted patterned brush work, that is both structured and immediate. His inspiration is found around him and is of the moment; reacting to the time he is living in today and recording his experiences as a visual diary.

Pop into The Atelier Gallery to explore Iain Holman’s latest works in our new exhibition, ‘The Observed Life’.

Join us for of our new exhibition ‘The Observed Life’, showing from Saturday 25th April. This double feature show demonstrates the art of watching, pairing the atmospheric, large-scale works of Iain Holman with the precise, luminous still lifes of Lewis Mackenzie. One captures the world in motion - the other captures the view in stillness.