A Kind of Mindfulness

After studying Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art Steven embarked upon a career in the music industry with his group The Big Dish. The band released three albums and he later made two solo records. He also worked as a designer, art director and illustrator before returning to painting, which came back to him almost like a calling.

The similarities Steven finds between music and painting are striking, in the composition, subject matter, relative values, rhythm, harmony and even choosing a title for a particular piece. Steven became a full time painter in 2011 after being shortlisted for Scotland’s Aspect Art prize.

BBC Art critic Estelle Lovatt has described Steven’s work as “like revisiting Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age of painterly skill against the Colour Field of Rothko, all intertwined with an aesthetic twist of contemporary, complex-simplicity. Lindsay using his paintbrush eloquently, capturing painterly conversations between the art history giants of a bygone age and a bygone art.”