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LINCOLN SELIGMAN DEPICTS 800 YEAR OLD FORTRESS CITY OF JAISALMER, RAJASTHAN, THE ONLY LIVING FORT IN THE WORLD
Artist with an abiding passion for India, there will be about forty paintings, mostly of recent travels in Rajasthan and Gujarat. Latest addition a triumphant blaze of colour.
LINCOLN SELIGMAN MAY 23 – JUNE 13 2018 EXHIBITION AT THE OSBORNE STUDIO GALLERY- NEW PAINTINGS IN A SOLO SHOW CELEBRATE HIS ABIDING LOVE OF INDIA
FAVOURITE SUBJECTS INCLUDE MAHARAJAS RIDING ROLLERS, FLOWING TURBANS, THE ARCHITECTURE OF TEMPLES AND VAST UNDERGROUND CATHEDRALS (STEPWELLS)
FORTY LUMINOUS NEW WORKS TELL THE STORY OF SELIGMAN’S RECENT TRAVELS IN GUJARAT AND RAJASTHAN
Lincoln Seligman read law at Balliol, Oxford, but after six ‘boring ‘ years in a shipping practice, amassed enough paintings for an exhibition, abandoning City life for ever.
He has outstanding gifts as an abstract sculptor as well as a painter, commissioned to create steel and glass installations for the atrium spaces of banks, airports and hotels in Europe, Hong Kong and China.
Seligman’s connections with India go back to his childhood immersion in the Just So stories and Jungle Book, written by his mother’s godfather, Rudyard Kipling, a family friend. His paternal grandmother, Hilda Seligman, was an artist, who lived in the Indian Himalayas. One of her most famous works, a bronze statue of shepherd boy turned founder of a dynasty King Chandra Gupta, circa 275 BC, stands outside the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. Another famous family friend and portrait subject for Hilda was the exiled Emperor of Ethiopia, revered as a deity, Haile Selassie, who lived with her in Wimbledon.
During his latest Indian journey Seligman stayed with the Maharaja of Pochina, spent a day with tribesmen on a farm, rode out on camels to enjoy the desert, marvelled at temples and fortresses.