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Alan Kingsbury  was born in London in 1960 and began painting in oils at the age of nine. He studied psychology and art history at the University of Wales taking his degree in psychology in 1982. Unconvinced of the usefulness of attending art school he spent a further year of full time study of art history in London, specialising in old master and modern European painting.

In 1983 he was offered a student internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice which enabled him to paint and study the art and architecture in the city. Following this he took up the post of cataloguer of modern paintings at Bonhams fine art auctioneers in London. During this time he was able to look at hundreds of pictures per week in galleries and auction houses thus gaining a wide knowledge for detail and effect in painting .

In 1986 Kingsbury left London to pursue his career as an artist. Initially he returned to Venice where he worked daily outdoors, painting oil sketches of the architecture in varying light conditions. At the end of this year he moved to Dumfriesshire in Scotland where he spent the subsequent five years developing his painting style and refining his technique. It was here that he began to compose his characteristic imaginative figure subjects.

 In 1991 he moved to West Cornwall , where he now lives with his wife , the abstract painter Morag Ballard , and their two children.

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

1988   Jonathan Cooper   Park Walk Gallery   London
1989   Jonathan Cooper   Park Walk Gallery   London
1991   Francis Kyle Gallery London
1993   Francis Kyle Gallery London
1996   Francis Kyle Gallery London
1998   Francis Kyle Gallery London
2001   Francis Kyle Gallery London
2002   Old Custom House Gallery  Penzance
2003   Jonathan Cooper   Park Walk Gallery   London
2003   The John Davies Gallery   Stow-on-the-Wold
2005   Jonathan Cooper   Park Walk Gallery   London
2006   The New Custom House Galerie   Friedrichstadt   Germany
2008   Medici Gallery   London 


Mixed Exhibitions

1983   Royal Academy of Arts   London   Summer Exhibition
1988   The Alton Gallery London   'Glittering Prizes XIV'   
                                                             'Glittering Prizes XV'
1989   Jonathan Cooper   Park Walk Gallery   London  Summer   Exhibition     
                                                                                                  20th Century British Art Fair   London
1990   Francis Kyle Gallery London    'In a Brown Study '
1992   Francis Kyle Gallery London    'Conversations'
1993   Francis Kyle Gallery London    'Charleston Revisited'
1995   Francis Kyle Gallery London   'Jazz'  
             The Gallery West India Key London   'Cities and Water'
1997   Francis Kyle Gallery London    'A Saxon Shore'
            The Arts Centre Kings Lynn      'A Saxon Shore'
2000   Francis Kyle Gallery London    'The Art of Memory   Marcel Proust'
2001   The National Theatre London  'The Art of Memory   Marcel Proust'
2002   Jonathan Cooper   'ART 2002'  Islington   London
2003   Jonathan Cooper   'London Art Fair'   Islington   London
                                               Sauzmarez Manor   Guernsey
                                               'ART LONDON'   Chelsea   London Park Walk Gallery   London  'A Dealer's Eye'
2004    ING Bank   'Platform 100 Exhibition'   London
             Baring Asset Management London 
             Royal West of England Academy   Bristol   152 Autumn Exhibition
2005    Jonathan Cooper   'London Art Fair'   Islington   London
                                              B.A.D.A. Fair Chelsea London
                                              'ART LONDON'   Chelsea   London 
             Royal West of England Academy   Bristol   153 Autumn Exhibition
2006    Royal West of England Academy   Bristol   154 Autumn Exhibition 
             Medici Gallery London Christmas Exhibition
2007    Medici Gallery London Summer Exhibition 
                                                'ART LONDON'  Chelsea   London
             Royal West of England Academy   Bristol   155 Autumn Exhibition

 

 

Literature

'Realism Returns With a Princely Seal of Approval'  by Geralidine Norman 'The Independent'  October 14th 1991

'Going Solo' by Henrietta Howard  'House and Garden' Magazine October 1991

'The Art of Alan Kingsbury'  by John Russell Taylor (Art critic, 'The Times'). Francis Kyle Gallery Catalogue 1993

'St. Ives Revisited'  by Peter Davies. Old Bakehouse Publications 1994

'The Art of Alan Kingsbury' by Frank Whitford ('Sunday Times' art critic) Francis Kyle Gallery Catalogue 1996

'Alan Kingsbury' by Martin Gayford (Art critic, 'The Spectator') Francis Kyle Gallery Catalogue 1998

'Around The Galleries'  by John Russell Taylor 'The Times' October 27th 1998

'Alan Kingsbury'  by Rachel Campbell-Johnston ( Art critic, 'The Times') Francis Kyle gallery Catalogue 2001

'Inshaws Insights'  by David Inshaw RWA.  RWA Friends Magazine. Spring 2006

'Hats Off To Kingsbury'  by Deborah Harris. Artists and Illustrators Magazine February 2007

'Alan Kingsbury, The Artist at Work'  by Robin Capon. Leisure Painter Magazine June 2007

'St. Ives 1975-2005, Art Colony in Transition'  by Peter Davies 2007

'Studio Practice, The Choice of a Subject'  by Oliver Lange. The Artist Magazine  March 2008

 

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