Eight years after leaving Edinburgh College of Art Paul Kennedy is now well established in his studio in
Glasgow's Merchant City. To date much of his work has been inspired by
the city, depicting a narrative between the people and their
surroundings.
For the new work in his latest exhibition Paul has
revisited St Abbs, a favourite holiday haunt of his family for
generations, not only on trips finding new images but remembering those
from his own childhood and also reconstructing and imagining a few
scenes from the past caught in his Grandparents old black and white
snapshots.
A recent change of emphasis from mainly figurative work
to expressive painting has given him greater freedom to explore his use
of colour. The old images being black and white allow him an
unconstrained palette.
'Everything has its own story. I like
the idea of bringing history into my painting in more ways than one. For
me this exhibition is the start of a new direction, a discovery of
something that has always been there and just brought to light not too
unlike finding my Grans photo album'.
The exhibition is now on at the
Billcliffe Gallery in Glasgow city centre. Paul can be contacted via
facebook and his website is
www.paulkennedyart.com.
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