Bio:

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Kevin grew up in Bristol, England.

At age 18 he hit the road for several years, hitch-hiking and working odd jobs through southern Europe, and then travelled up and down the Pacific Coast of North America.

Since making the San Francisco Bay Area his home in the early-80’s he has been active as a printmaker, film-maker, and more recently as a painter.

 

1987 California College of Arts and Crafts - BFA Printmaking and Painting

 

1989-1994 Skywalker Sound and S.Z.F.C. - Sound Editor

1995-2002 Tippett Studio - Visual Effects Editor

2004-2022 Pixar Animation Studios - Film Editor

 

all film credits: 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741758/

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Artist’s Statement:

 

For the past fifteen months I’ve been making paintings on cement board using acrylic paint, ink, charcoal and spray paint. I enjoy working with hand-cut stencils and fragments of photographic imagery which often form the initial visual hook of a painting, and at the same time the anchor of a composition. Sometimes I will reuse those stencils and images in more than one piece, discovering alternate meanings and relationships. 

 

Working in this way I’m able to play with multiple visual elements; some of them planned and meticulously considered, some of them spontaneous and improvised. Whether it’s texture, gesture, line, or accidental grime, I happily welcome it all.

 

I’ve always been drawn to the interplay between order and chaos. To the contrast and the drama.

In my work I am busy investigating the dynamic between defined form, energetic release, and the creation of unexpected psychological spaces. One might say that I’m dancing on the thin line between ‘the banal’ and ‘the sublime’; while exploring these aspects of a painting I sometimes discover unexpected fragments of beauty.