{"id":16,"date":"2011-05-07T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingsizetheme.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2019-06-27T08:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T08:25:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8216;Through his work as a painter, and through the example he has set as a leader and teacher, Alan Lawson has been a major influence on the revival of representational painting. He has stood for real aesthetic values&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 (2015 May) Today&#8217;s Masters. <em>Fine Art Connoisseur<\/em>, 55-59.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/?attachment_id=1302\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/detail-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"detail self portrait\" width=\"385\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/detail-300x132.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/detail-1024x451.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/detail-680x300.jpg 680w, http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/detail.jpg 1482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alan J Lawson is an award winning Scottish artist, known for his sensitive portraits and landscape paintings. Working predominantly as an oil painter, but also sculpting in clay and wax, his work is heavily influenced by the details and rhythms of the natural world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Recent interviews, press, and panel discussions below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tWQwx9vveH\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.st-andrews.ac.uk\/archive\/poet-portrait-unveiled-by-national-galleries\/\">Poet portrait unveiled by National Galleries<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Poet portrait unveiled by National Galleries&#8221; &#8212; University of St Andrews news\" src=\"https:\/\/news.st-andrews.ac.uk\/archive\/poet-portrait-unveiled-by-national-galleries\/embed\/#?secret=qCSNIiTV8k#?secret=tWQwx9vveH\" data-secret=\"tWQwx9vveH\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/?attachment_id=1410\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1410\">Today&#8217;s Master Alan Lawson<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Financial Times Article on The Alpine Fellowship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/b92ae874-f868-11e3-815f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3E7uiW5WG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1387 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FT.png\" alt=\"FT\" width=\"73\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FT.png 500w, http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FT-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FT-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 73px) 100vw, 73px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxzQV08k_FA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trailer for TRAC 2014<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EIK3lc2TP-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minimalism and art<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"http:\/\/digiqualia.com\/artist\/alan-lawson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interview for digiqualia <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drawninblack.com\/2012\/11\/we-dont-ever-really-copy-the-world-we-translate-interview-with-alan-lawson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interview drawn in black<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"http:\/\/urbantimes.co\/magazine\/2013\/11\/the-alpine-fellowship-classical-art-revived-in-switzerland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article in UrbanTimes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digiqualia.com\/lecture\/panel-discussion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Panel Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digiqualia.com\/lecture\/panel-discussion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Recent Awards and Publications<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Portrait Society of America (2nd Merit, 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bridportprize.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bridport Poetry Prize (Shortlist 2014)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barehands19.tumblr.com\/#71346988242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bare Hands Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Portrait Society of America (5th Honourable Mention 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plein Air Salon (2013)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Portrait Society of America (3rd Merit 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plein Air Salon (2012)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Through his work as a painter, and through the example he has set as a leader and teacher, Alan Lawson has been a major influence on the revival of representational painting. He has stood for real aesthetic values&#8217;\u00a0 (2015 May) Today&#8217;s Masters. Fine Art Connoisseur, 55-59. Alan J Lawson is an award winning Scottish artist, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/?page_id=16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aj-lawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}