Art and Oil Paintings from South African Artist Estelle Kenyon

All art and oil paintings created by South African artist Estelle Kenyon

The vibrant, colourful and evocative work of Estelle Kenyon is influenced by people in their natural environment. Her paintings are mostly of women

Estelle Kenyon graduated with a B.A. Ed Fine Arts from Pretoria university in 1987. She has had numerous exhibitions in South Africa and her works have been collected by institutions and private collectors in SA, Africa, Europe and the US.

and in the past, her subject ladies have been from countries as far a field as Peru.

More recently, she has concentrated on Africa and although she has visited Tanzania and Zanzibar, she is currently examining her roots and the people of her home country, South Africa.

Background

Exhibitions

Solo:

Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg, 1993.
Exhibited 12 oils on canvas, average size 1.5 x 1.8.m.

Karen Mckerron Gallery, November 1994. Exhibited 8 oils on canvas, average size 1.2 x 1.7m.

Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, June 2004.

Groups:

Heritage House, Pretoria, December 1992.

Ardvark Gallery, Johannesburg, October 1994.

Sanlam Cultural Centre, Rustenburg, July 1996.

Gallery Plett, Plettenburg Bay, December 1997.

Vincent Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, June 2000.

Art Images, Park Horst, Johannesburg, October 2004.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zaire

Rand Merchant Bank, South Africa

French Embassy, South Africa

French Embassy, Namibia

Harvard Business School, Boston, US

I had a dream, which shed some light on my reasons for painting. I found myself in a room filled with paint buckets. Some were empty, some half full and I was lifting up the lids of the buckets, peering into each one to see if that one had what I was searching for. A voice spoke from outside my dream and asked me what I was looking for and I replied, "I am looking for my soul" I paint because I cannot not paint.

The subject matter I choose is aspects and objects of life, which I resonate with. There is a desire to return to nature and the tangibility it has to offer. There is for me a reassuring honesty in nature. Western secular life style has created boundaries between the physical and the spiritual and that influences ones ability to see clearly. We are bombarded through the media, the government, dogma etc. of how we should live, what we should think, what is right and what is wrong so that we are left with no thoughts of our own and the person we started off with has become a clone of society.

With painting it is an attempt to connect with that force which fills one with a deeper understanding of what is.

Estelle Kenyon

Moni's Corporate Collection, S.Africa

Private Collections, Germany

Private Collection, Portugal

Private Collection, Switzerland

Private Collection, Colorado, US

Estelle Kenyon

Tel: +27 (0)82 928 3797

E-mail: info@estellekenyon.com

Born: 07/02/1960 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Education: BA Ed Fine Arts, University of Pretoria, 1987.

Employment: SA Broadcasting Corporation 1988 - 1992. Worked in the news department in the Quantel Paintbox, producing logos, graphics, illustrations, etc. Painting full time since 1992.

Landscape oil painting by artist Estelle Kenyon

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