About GK Art
Imagine the joy that a personal George Kennedy artwork could bring
to your home or, as a unique gift, to a loved one.
Commissioning
a painting used to be the exclusive preserve of the
landed gentry, in fact it’s a surprisingly simple
and cost effective process.
GK
Art offers its patrons a comprehensive service: mounting
and framing artwork, producing prints for family and
friends and arranging delivery within an agreed timescale.
Once
you’ve decided upon the subject, you’ll
have a consultation with the artist to discuss what
you’re looking for from the painting. George works
from photographs and you have the option of providing
a picture from your own collection or allow us to arrange
for a photograph to be taken.
After
the consultation, the payment of a non-refundable 25%
deposit secures your artwork. That’s where your
involvement ends and George’s hard work on your painting begins!
Biography:
Most recent exhibitions include:
International exhibitions:
2007 - 11th Autumn Art Salon Palace of Arts Lviv Ukraine
Home exhibitions:
2004 - Cancer Research Exhibition Bonar Hall Dundee
2004- Scottish landscapes, Carmyllie, Angus
2003 - Scone Game Fair, Perthshire
2003 - Scottish Countryside Festival Glamis Castle
2003- Scottish landscapes, Carmyllie, Angus
2002 - Cancer Research Exhibition Bonar Hall Dundee
1993 - Riverside exhibition, Perth
1992 - Scottish landscapes Crieff Hydro, Perthshire
1991 - Equestrian paintings at Mark Philips Equestrian Centre, Gleneagles
1990 - East Lothian Landscapes, Peter Potter Gallery Haddington
George Kennedy was born in 1962 in Dundee, Scotland.
Passionate about painting, George Kennedy is an instinctual artist who uses the medium of oil paints and pastels to evoke the life-force of his subjects.
Whether working
to capture a moment, place or person who has sparked his
imagination, or in bringing to life a much loved pet in
a commissioned painting, George Kennedy relies upon his gut
instincts to express the essence of his subject.
Art has been a passion for George ever since he started
Primary School and got his hands on the school’s
art materials. All through his adolescence and on into
adult life he’s kept a sketch pad close in order
to set down on paper things that make an impression on
his imagination.
Working from his studio near Arbroath, George strives to fulfil his artistic
goal: to explore and develop his unique approach to painting.
His favourite artists include Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Vermeer and Frans Hals.
Because he has never been formally trained he enjoys the
freedom that working outside of established rules brings
to his art. At the core of his artistic philosophy is
a desire to be natural; to express himself in his own
way. In the time George has been painting with
oils, his artistic style has developed through a single-minded
determination to put past lessons into practise and use
his personal passion to develop as an artist.
Instinctively layering the oil paints to evoke texture, he works across the whole painting bringing it alive: layer by layer, brushstroke by brushstroke. You only get life out of a painting if you put life into it.
Unlike most formally trained artists, George’s approach
is an emotional one: painting is an inherent part of him.
It’s not possible to separate him from his work:
without painting, and the freedom of expression it allows
him, George would be lost.
It is this depth of feeling and level of personal commitment
to each and every project that results in beautiful works
of art; and often provokes emotional reactions from his
clients. It’s when he sees the happiness on a patron’s
face that he knows his professional passion has transformed
a photo or an idea into a living, breathing work of art.
George's work has been shown and sold across Scotland. His first formal exhibition came in 1990, when he displayed his popular series of East Lothian landscapes at the Peter Potter Gallery in Haddington.
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