The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Eton: Artist Biography - ALAN KING

Born Glasgow 1946 Trained, Glasgow School of Art 1964 68 1970 - 80 Exhibited regularly with Renfrewshire teachers in Paisley Museum. 1989,91, 93,95.97 Paisley Drawing Competition 1990 Artist member of Paisley Art Institute. Annual exhibitor with this group. 1993 onwards, regular exhibitor at the R.G.I. Glasgow 1995 Artist member of the Glasgow Art Club. From 1994 I have exhibited regularly in the following Galleries. Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow Gatehouse Gallery, Giffnock, Glasgow Thompsons Gallery London, Albeburgh and Stow-onthe-Wold Colours Gallery, Edinburgh Queens Gallery, Aberdeen Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey Lemon St. Gallery, Cornwall First one man show in Art Exposure Glasgow in August 1997 I have also exhibited regularly at the following art fairs in Islington, Chelsea, London and Glasgow 1998 Three Person Show Gallery 41, Edinburgh Four Person Show Green Gallery, Aberfoyle Four Person Show Albamarle Gallery, London Scottish Show Thomsons Gallery, London Four Person Show Edinburgh Gallery, Edinburgh Mixed Show Frames Gallery Perth Glasgow Art Club touring exhibition to Aachan, Maastricht, Amsterdam and Paris 1999 One person show in Art Exposure Glasgow and various group shows in the above galleries. 2000 Two person show in Thompsons Gallery, London One person show in Gallery 41, Edinburgh Three person show in Richmondhill Gallery, Richmond Millennium show, Albemarle gallery Various Group shows in most of the above galleries 2001 Group shows in Thompsons Galleries, Art Exposure, Richmondhill, Gallery 41, Queens Gallery, Lemon Street Gallery and art fairs throughout the country. 2002 I continue to exhibit with most of the above. Two person show in Thompsons, Marylebone. One person show in August at Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow. 2003 Group shows in Thompsons, Richmondhill, Art Exposure, Queens and Gallery 41. It is only in the last ten years that I have seriously started painting. After nearly thirty years in teaching, I started to paint full time in 1999. I have enjoyed the experience of trying to put into practice the work ethic and lessons of teaching art full time. I am interested in the process of painting and am constantly investigating and reading about the materials and the craft of painting. The Red Hat continues to be a major theme within my work. Storytelling and a love of early Italian Art are the roots of the development of my work. I try to create images which are visually compelling and which form a bond with the spectator. Many of the images and the titles used have their source in literature and poetry. Much of the work starts with the title which may be taken from Dante, Sorley Maclean a Scottish poet. This leads to ideas which are developed with life models and a miniature theatre which I built. Manikins and backgrounds are positioned and photographed with different lighting effects.