2010

Some paintings go to very special friends.. it makes it easier to part with them.

This pastel gives you a sense of things at Kieron’s eye level…

Simply stunning…

2010 was the year we realised our life would not be returning to normal… and that we would be working around this rather time consuming and massive element we had in our lives… Kieron’s early career as an artist. It threw up lots of ethical, legal, financial and practical questions and at the time we

Holkham Red Coat… I know, another title you’d rather change!

The Broadland landscape became one of Kieron’s preferred locations, although man made originally as a result of peat digging, it offers artists a landscape filled with movement, from the reeds nodding in the breeze, to the lazy sails that glide past, to the wildlife that features within it, all encapsulated within the big Norfolk skies that

Some of Kieron’s work seems ageless and timeless…

Kieron delighted in learning tips and techniques that allowed him to create different effects in his work, scraping a pastel to create sprinkles for example, then rolling a pencil over them to make them stick to the paper! a nightmare when trying to frame up the painting as the sprinkles have a tendency to drop

There was an honesty to Kieron’s work in that he painted the sky as it was… he didn’t tweak it to be better balanced, or chocolate boxy, which is often a temptation. He would try to get his boats to look as if they had ‘swallowed a marble!’ to remind himself to try to create

Sometimes picking the title for Kieron’s work was a headache, it had to be a name that we could easily associate with the painting… Kieron was literally waiting for Fifa to start on the TV and so decided to paint this small vignette to pass the time!