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Art Uno

2nd March – 26th March 2004

Kenneth A Head

A painter in Watercolour, Oil and Acrylic, Ken received training at Twickenham Technical Art College during the fifties, having shown a natural ability since childhood: after which he began a career as a Graphic Artist in central London. He is an expert airbrush artist and, before the advent of computer-simulated airbrush effects, produced a good proportion of finished artwork for colour-gradated designs used in commercial packaging, such as Benson & Hedges Superkings, Gillette, Johnnie Walker, Typhoo, Dunhill and many others.

Ken’s main interest in Fine Art is ‘architectural landscape’ working on site wherever possible. The effects of light and shade are very important to him and in his Mediterranean subjects, he always attempts to convey the feeling of heat.

Ken is also a member of The Croydon Art Society and the Cantium Group of Artists, and, additionally, The South East London Art Group. He has held several one-man exhibitions at Colchester, Croydon, Bromley, Norwood and Sutton and his works hang in several galleries in the South East.

Ken was commissioned to contribute illustrations for a SEGAS calendar featuring English Public Houses and on several occasions has painted stage backcloth's for amateur productions both in London and at the Edinburgh Festival, ranging from Shakespeare to light opera. As part of the Croydon/Arnhem link celebrations, the Town Hall in Arnhem, Holland was presented with one of his paintings – depicting the Fairfield Halls, which is now on permanent display.

Following last year’s success, three of Ken’s paintings were accepted for the Armed Forces Art Society’s Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.