Dreamers

Malcolm Ludvigsen

Scarborough Oil 24 x 30” © Malcolm Ludvigsen

Malcolm Ludvigsen is a very interesting artist working along the Yorkshire coast of England. Ludvigsen started life as a scientist specializing in mathematical physics and cosmology. In fact, he is so interested in the geometry of the Universe that he wrote a book about it which was published by Cambridge University. He didn’t discover painting until about 13 years ago, but when he did, he threw himself passionately and fully into plein air painting the geometries of his Yorkshire homeland. Now a full-time artist, he traded one kind of physics for another and in the process, discovered how hard painting can be.

Science and art share many similarities. Scientists study their subjects in depth and then imagine a hypothetical situation which they would like to explore. Discovery is ever on their minds and sometimes they must invent new ways of looking or probing the known world to make progress. Sometimes they have to …