David Kent

About The Artist...

David H. J Kent was born in Weybridge, Surrey, England in July 1936. David was the middle son of three from his parent's William and Florence. He was brought up in a poor, but happy family; where he spent his childhood in a climate of rationing and deprivation; although he did not realise this at the time as all his friends and neighbours were all in the same situation. David had always been interested in art from a very early age. He was always at the table drawing, sketching or had his nose in an art book. As a schoolboy he studied old Victorian tomes full of wonderful prints of various illustrators from that time. So how did a boy from war-torn England come to obtain these old Victorian books? Well strangely, they seemed to be cheap and in plentiful supply after the war, in jumble sales (or rummage sales, the name for them at the time). Famous ink-and-pencil artists also caught his eye notably the works of Aubrey Beardsley and later on MC Escher.

Although David used most artistic implements and materials that were to hand, in preference to pencil, he loved drawing in black (Indian) ink with its rich black line and high contrast. He drew cartoon caricature portraits of Hollywood actors, personalities of ...

Also a joint exhibition Chinnici/Kent a Synergy of Sons 29th September 6th October 2015 - At the Six Inch Gallery in Milan.

This exhibition that will be taking place at the Menier Gallery near London Bridge on 2nd - 7th November 2015. The Menier Gallery is a charity organisation and funds paintings in hospitals with the proceeds of the hire costs, They will be hosting an exhibition of my fathers work David Kent on www.kentgalleries.com

And a famous Italian artist called Lorenzo Chinnici on www.lorenzochinnici.com

Our thoughts were inviting a select art lovers to our special night, who may enjoy the evening and what it has to offer, and maybe contribute a small gift for the raffle we plan to arrange, all proceeds to go to Paintings in hospital, a registered charity, that is very close to our hearts, as money is tight to organise this event.

We plan to make this quite an event, with the national newspapers being here, and have approached BBC London tonight, as it is the 1st time that Lorenzo Chinnici has done a show in London for 41 years.




Also if you could think of any other organisations that are keen to help out, this will be much appreciated, as we really wish to make this an event to remember.

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