Kevin Chapman

KEVIN CHAPMAN is in love with paint. He is a diverse artist painting in a thought-provoking manner. Landscapes, though non-site specific are roughly based on observations of place and memory. Expressive abstracts and abstraction run parallel with suggestive realism. The figure is pushed and prodded around some compositions to merge into the painting with the edges of such an important factor. Despite this, there is a coherence to his work. Large brush mark making, allied with an interweave of various tightly controlled methods of application, all in the love of paint and surface.

Always experimenting, Chapman works directly on the surface with no preparatory drawings, the end result emerging from paint and mark teasing intimating the possibilities of content. Altering and reworking using mainly acrylics with acrylic mediums, spray paints and collage works can move between abstract and suggestive figurative several times before some sort of full stop is achieved.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Cooper Gallery, New Zealand
Redpath Gallery, Australia
Landis Gallery, South Africa
Abberbach Fine Art
Amalgam Gallery
Grace Barrand Design Centre

MIXED EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE
Tauranga Society of Arts
Cooper Gallery
Brisbane Art Gallery
Redpath Gallery
Landis Gallery
Abberbach Fine Art
University of Toronto
Laing Art Company
London Art Fair, Design Centre
Artistes de Grand Bretagne, Paris
RA Summer Exhibitions
Seen Galleries
New Grafton Galleries
20th Century British Art Fair
London Art Fair Islington
Beck Gallery, Munich
Spirit of London Exhibition
Singer Friedlander
West Wales Art Centre
Amalgam Gallery
Mid Cornwall Gallery
Alpha House Gallery
Grace Barrand Design Centre
Bruton Gallery

AWARDS INCLUDE
Radio Rotorua Award, New Zealand
Chambers of Commerce Painting Award, New Zealand
R.A. Student Award for Portraiture
Spirit of London Painting Competition best Watercolour
Spirit of London Painting Runner up
Le Diplome De Societaire, Paris
Hawker Siddley Trophy
Discerning Eye Award

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE
University of London Toronto
The Astor Family
Erin Pizzey
Reuters
Sir Trevor McDonald
Gerald Smith
Corporate and Private Collections World Wide.