Kieran Roberts

Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to check out my artwork, and learn a little bit about me.
I was born in 1982, in Invercarcargill, the deep south of New Zealand. I grew up surrounded by motorsport, the family home just a couple of minutes' drive to Teretonga - the local race circuit, with speedway, Go - Kart and motorcross tracks all within a stones' throw.
My father raced Go - Karts in his early years, before taking up Midget car racing at speedway, and
there was usually motorsport on the tv at the weekends when I wasn't watching it in the flesh.
I started painting with water paints when I was about 7 or 8 years old.
Simple stick figures soon evolved to more complex pictures using arcrylics, as I started to experiment with abstract art as well as keeping my hand in with painting racing cars.
In 1999 I started racing Go-Karts, and the lack of available time, as well as other interests meant that only a few artworks were completed between '99 and 2006.
A couple of years after leaving school I started studying to become an engineer, becoming qualified in 2006.
It was after this, that I was gifted some un-needed art supplies, re-igniting my creative flame
The first few works I created in this period were all abstract, as I experim...

Exhibited in galleries in Invercargill, Queenstown, and Christchurch. Exhibited at Highlands motorsport park, during the Highlands festival of speed. Exhibited at the Dunedin Autospectacular.