Cliff Kearns

Cliff Kearns Interprets and Paints Numbers as Geometric Abstract Art!

Numbers are simple in form, yet complex in meaning. They measure just about everything! 

The more Kearns explores their shape and meaning, the more he discovers how important each numeral can be. This exploration can result in interesting and limitless possibilities as statements of Art.

NUMBERS pervade our days and often dictate our life direction and self worth. Life and, in fact, Art can become a Numbers Game.’

When not creating individual numerals from zero to nine as unique finished paintings in their own right, Kearns has been been incorporating sequential numbering into all his series of personal fine art works beginning with IMAGE Number One about 20 years ago.
Relatively obvious in the colorful Celebrity Series and his first two hundred or so paintings and constructions, it is more subtle but still there in his recent impactful Diamond Series #212 - #225. This becomes an important marker in tracking his history and evolution as an artist.
As an over arching theme, the numbering helps to hold this journey of discovery together. Another subtle underlying take away is a conceptual inference that the commoditization of Art becomes the measure of one's su...

Fifteen years of creating and marketing his own Fine Art.

Thirty three years of creating commissioned paintings as a freelance Artist.

Throughout that time he taught 3 semesters of painting and illustration at Fanshawe School of Design

Seven Years of working in the Art Departments of four Companies. One as Art Director.

Special Art Program, HB Beal Secondary, London

2021 - Vancouver Eastside Cultural Crawl
November 2021

2020 - Vancouver Eastside Cultural Crawl
November 2020

2019 - Vancouver Eastside Cultural Crawl
November 2019

2019 - Vancouver Parker Art Salon
May 2019

2018 - Vancouver Eastside Cultural Crawl
November 2018

2017 - Farewell London Exhibit - June 1-30
Fringe Gallery, London ON Canada

2017 - 'Name. Brand & Number' - Mar. 3-17
Desert Art Collection -
Palm Desert, CA,USA

2017 - Brewery Pop Up Show Feb. 25-28
Anderson Craft Ales, London ON Canada

2016 - Aug-Sept - "One,Two,Three, I Paint & See" - ONE MAN - St.Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre (STEPEC) - St.Thomas ON Canada

2015 - Martin Arts - July August - Bayfield, ON Canada

2015 - October Group Exhibit - Westland Art Gallery - London ON Canada

2015 - Desert Art Collection - March - Palm Desert, CA, USA

2014 - Elena Bulatova Fine Art - April, May - Palm Springs, CA, USA

2014 - Desert Art Collection - March - Palm Desert, CA, USA

2014 - Westland Art Gallery - Jan. Feb. - London ON Canada

2013 - Westland Art Gallery - June - London ON C...