Kerin Freeman

Kerin Freeman is a New Zealand portrait artist of British heritage, having lived in New Zealand for just over 30yrs. NZ is a great country and I had the great fortune living at one of the best beaches in the country with my children for a few years. I've always had dogs and love walking on the beach with them and going into the ocean, my peaceful haven. I now work from home

Secretarial College, UK - while in NZ I worked in mental health, Drug Dependency as administrator and front line, and later as a Legal Secretary for a criminal barrister.
Massey University, NZ, papers in sociology, human development, adolescence, anthropology and religious studies - allowing me to work with girls with behavioural and learning difficulties and with the NZ police and young offenders.
I've also worked in Belgium for 4yrs as a copy editor/proof reader for The European Journal of Biochemistry on scientific articles. In NZ, I later worked freelance on medical and scientific and humanities theses.
Art - Spent time working for Freelance Animators, NZ, as a painter of cells, then later as an animator - learning from a man who once worked for Walt Disney himself in America - on Tiny Toons. I've designed T-shirts for children and later on, taking a number of commissions for portraits and entering exhibitions

My first solo art exhibition was in Carlton Gallery in NZ a few years back, and received great feedback, inspiring me to keep painting portraits.
I have entered the Molly Morpeth competition, NZ, and won awards for my artwork - one being a skinhead in a tunnel with graffiti on the walls. Later bought by an art gallery in Rotorua, NZ. My paintings have sold online, from my website, and at an art class where I gave a talk about animation, and the use of acrylics. I experiments with acrylics, oils, charcoal and graphite.