Kevin Scully
artist
Kevin Scully is an artist, writer, illustrator, and qualified tutor. He trained at Wimbledon School of Art, London and is an experienced teacher in drawing and painting in all mediums. Kevin is also an award-winning garden designer!
His vast artistic experience has included work as a scenic artist in London’s theatre land, painting sets at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sadler’s Wells, and The Theatre Royal, and also in television and film.
He has worked for many years as an illustrator for clients including Volkswagen, Wedgwood, Deutsche Grammophon, Marks & Spencer, DC Thomson, and Anouska Hempel Designs.
He has also designed an award-winning garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
He travels widely and has lived and painted in the Caribbean and The Canary Islands.
He is awinner of The Artist ‘Winsor & Newton Painting Prize’ and the ‘Clairefontaine Art Award’ atthe Patchings Art Festivals.
He has led groups on painting holidays to Portugal, Spain, Gozo,Morocco, Norway, India, Greece, France, Turkey, and Italy.
He has written several books on painting for The Crowood Press including ‘Drawing and Painting on Location’. He exhibits with the Oxford Art Society, West Berkshire Open Studios, in art galleries nationally, and at the Mall Galleries, London.
He has taught on art courses at the Marlborough College Summer School in Wiltshire for many years until its recent demise. He teaches annually at the Oxford Summer School and runs regular workshops and courses at West Dean College Chichester, Sunningwell School ofArt, City Arts Newbury, Ardington School of Arts and Crafts, and the Cornwall School of Art.
He lives in a rural West Berkshire village with his wife and two children.
The way I work
I trained at Wimbledon School of Art, London, and although primarily a figurative painter,
time and experience have led me to find new ways of saying more with less. In my paintings, as much detail as possible has been eliminated, with the elements contained within them being suggested rather than specified. Enchanted by the enigmatic, I aim to produce paintings that contain just the bare essentials, and devoid of too much unnecessary detail.
Edges are often blurred to diffuse the real from the imagined and my work drifts between
the figurative and the semi-abstract.
In an attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light, and in particular, atmosphere, I work at speed before the moment evaporates. Although repetition is brief in my approach, I adopt the same lively tactics in my paintings when I am confronted with a moody, misty landscape in the northern hemisphere, as I do when experiencing the heat and blinding light of more southerly climates.
In Hydra in late September, on my painting workshop 'Painting by the sea in Hydra', we'll have the opportunity to tackle a wide array of light effects as the weather starts to soften towards an Autumnal light - a beautiful time to be painting on Hydra!
in 2027
I'm teaching a week of workshops as a week-long retreat on the island of Hydra, as part of Anna Kwiecinska's 'Painting by the Sea in Hydra' series.
28 September - 5 OCTOBER, 2027 HYDRA, GREECE
You can also find more information at www.annakwiecinska.com