This
professional artist, usually known as `Rick` by those who know him
well, is 46 years old. He has an un-identical twin-brother both of
whom were born on their late father`s birthday, an elder sister
and a younger sister. Born in Ireland and brought-up in Craigavad,
North Down, and, with the rest of his family, he was educated at
public school in England. In background, `halfway across the Irish
Sea` and equally happy to be in either England mostly West
Dorset or Ireland!
Having inherited `an artistic talent`, as they say, with a strong
naval tradition from his mother`s side of the family, rather than
adopt the usual colour brush mediums, instead, Richard preferred
to develop pen and ink and, most recently, pencil and scalpel
blade techniques in black and white only through childhood and
adolescence to adulthood.
Perhaps one day he may take unserious time away from these very
exacting `realistic` styles. `A la so-called `modern art`, he`ll
throw tins of paint at canvasses and get `deep, meaningful and
profound` about the results which, of course, would command huge
prices! What a game, eh?
Perhaps rather surprisingly, the Artist does not usually sell his original
pictures.
Richard has been a fully professional artist since starting with
six or seven `dots` only pictures for sale as prints in Bridport,
West Dorset , England in 1984.
He always has worked entirely by naked eye only on these exhaustive and
increasingly `detailed` pictures.
After
working for a Mayfair, London estate agency in the early 1970s.,
he completed an illustration-bias graphics course at Bournemouth
College of Art, Dorset in the mid-1970s.
Developing the `dots` only pen and ink technique through the
1970s., he decided to `open`, as explained, in Bridport with
prints
for sale of local West Dorset scenes as `The Studio
Gallery`. The Gallery now displays around fifty prints. The
compositions reflect Richard`s own roots from his own inimitable
perspective with both Dorset and Irish scenes. Since
around 1990, the additional use of the `tip` of a scalpel blade
`on top` of the pen and ink `dots` to achieve an even further
tonal range (`depth`) and `detail` has taken the technique,
really, as far as it can go.
So,
since around 1995, the Artist has concentrated on an entirely
different area of illustration, namely, the Royal Navy in the
1940s. and 1950s..This time developing the use of pencils and,
again, the `tip` of a scalpel blade , these also hugely exhaustive
warship drawings are truly a heartfelt tribute by Richard to the
Royal Navy
. and he knows that his ancestors would approve
..
The Royal Navy has always been his greatest interest.
A
growing range of signed prints of these stylistically unique
drawings will follow in the years ahead. A few
years ago the Gallery altered its name to The Handskills Kennedy
Picture Gallery to reflect the necessary nature of the two
exacting techniques pencil or, pen , ink - and scalpel blade
work.
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A new Gallery has now opened in Bridport, West Dorset. 'The Loch Ewe Gallery' is at 59, South
Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NZ. Reaching discerning buyers, now, via our always improving website,
worldwide, assured of an absolutely efficient, guaranteed,
friendly and fast dispatch of prints service is - and will remain
- our guiding principle.
You
may be quite sure of this attitude` throughout if you choose to
order any of Richard Kennedy`s signed prints
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