Kelvin J Bown

Kelvin Bown specializes on artistic work in restoring historical images for artistic and culturally evocative presentations resides on the shifting, intersecting, and transfixing edges of human knowledge and art. He methodically and caringly brings back to life the memory of people, places, and ways of life which have begun to recede into the sands of time. His works illuminate past lives and views with clarity and passion. When applied to faded and damaged photos, Kelvin’s creative vision rebirths them through technological expertise and an artistic eye. He combines deep aesthetic sense with a masterful use of keen digital technique to evoke both the smallest details as well as overall harmony of a photograph's composition, sublimity and power. Given the wide variety of damages that photos and negatives survive over many decades and in their traverses long ago between continents, Kelvin treats each image with complete uniqueness, to allow, in whichever way he feels necessary, the subject to come alive again with clarity, detail, depth, and atmosphere.

Some of his most impressive works include huge panoramic images of Jerusalem and Amman compiled from material from several conjoined negatives in which every last visible feature ca...

Experience

"Reawakening the Past" - 2012
Dar Al Anda Gallery, Amman.

"Faith" - 2014
Al Qasr Hotel, Amman.

"Both Sides of the River" - 2015
Zara Gallery, Grand Hyatt, Amman.
Under the Patronage of H.R.H. Princess Rajwa bint Ali

"Fertile Crescent" - 2016
Jasmine House, Amman
Under the Patronage of H.E. Lina Ennab, Minister of Tourism

"From Ruins to Rebirth" - Shams Al-Balad, Amman

"Fertile Crescent II"
Jasmine House, Amman

"Remembrance - a Dialogue with the Past"
2018/2019
The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
Under the Patronage of H.R.H. Princess Wijdan