Ken Head
4th March to 28th March 2008
Open evening 11th March 2008 7-9pm
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.
He 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 an Associate member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art which exhibits at the Menier Gallery, SE1 and other venues countrywide. As a member of the Armed Forces Art Society he exhibits with them at the Mall Galleries in central London. Other memberships include 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.
Recent exhibitions include:
The Royal Watercolour Society at the Bankside Gallery
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries
The Royal Society of Marine Artists, also at the Mall Galleries.
