Lindesay Harkness   

 

From  “Self Portrait , 2004”    Pastel,  28” x35”

Lindesay Harkness grew up in England and completed her undergraduate and graduate education there, receiving her Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1977. 
She has lived in the US since 1975.

 She studied initially with Robert Cormier , and then intensively with  Paul Ingbretson at Fenway Studios in Boston. Both these artists were students of Ives Gammel, who was trained by the great artists of the Boston School: Edmund Tarbell, William Paxton and Joseph de Camp among others.  Lindesay now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband. Here she divides her time between portraiture, landscape and still life painting, all in pastel. Her countrified childhood in England and travels  within the British Isles and Europe have given her a strong affinity for gardens, wildflowers  and the countryside. Her paintings of these subjects convey the sensitivity of her feeling for them. She is known for the beauty of the light effect and the color harmonies in her work. 

Lindesay’s work reflects her relationship to the Boston School artists, who are known for their good draftsmanship, strong light effects and impressionist color.  She is a full Guild member of the Society for Classical Realism and a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America.                                         
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