Ken Head
7th March to 31st March 2006
Ripley Arts Centre welcomes the return of Ken’s collection
of highly skilled architectural, and landscape studies. please ring
to view 020 8464 5816
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, specialising in illustration,
photo-retouching and lettering. 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 and American
desert subjects; he always attempts to convey the feeling of heat.
Ken is 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 in the South East and his
works also hang in several Fine Art galleries locally.
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.
Ken is now a member of the Armed Forces Art Society and exhibits
with them at the Mall Galleries in central London.
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