Peter McLaren
Genre: Contemporary Painters
McLaren was the star graduate from Edinburgh College of Art in 1986. His Degree show caused a sensation featuring oil paintings of figures on racing bikes painted in ‘action’ mode in a technique approaching performance. He followed with images of gilded youth in fast cars and then overscale still lives and transpositions of parts of Velasquez Las Meninas before moving to Orkney and tackling the dramatic seas and coastline with the same originality and attack.
Born: 1964
