Graham Lister

Graham Lister (b. 1982) lives in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2016 he completed a Practice-based PhD at Glasgow School of Art (GSA) where he now works as a lecturer in Painting and Printmaking. He also has a MFA from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, and an MA in Art History from Glasgow University.

Exhibited in group shows in New York, London, Seoul and Beijing, Lister's paintings focus on breaking down physical forms, textures and surfaces. Balancing structured and intuitive abstraction processes, he investigates visual patterns, handwriting and representations of brush strokes.

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Can't See The Wood For The Trees is a painting on canvas. The background is a light sand colour whilst the abstracted marks that move across the canvas are rendered in a dark clay grey and yellow.

Can't See The Wood For The Trees by Graham Lister

Looking, Slowly by Graham Lister

Bouquet Glimpse is a painting on a piece of square board primed in sandy yellow. Abstract, the scattered shapes of green denote greenery that has been broken down beyond recognition.

Bouquet, Glimpse by Graham Lister