Kevin Holt

I have always had a great love for art and wanted very much when I left school to be able to support myself as a professional artist, but in those days that was a bit of a pipe dream.I joined my local weekly paper in the photographic darkroom and then after a couple of years was promoted to a staff photographer.A steady climb up the ladder ended when I joined a National newspaper as a staff photographer in the great City of Manchester, where I enjoyed the happiest 34 years of my working life.Now happily retired, I can paint to my hearts content.We photographers used to joke that we painted with light! now I paint with oils on canvas!…Photography,which I still very much love, taught me to really look at the World, there is such a lot to see!

I was educated firstly at the Daughters of the Cross Primary school in Manchester, going on to Our Lady of Mount Carmel High school.I studied for two years in the evening after work at Manchester School of Art, before my Press work
eventually totally absorbed me and left no time for painting.