Kevin Chapman
LAURA GASCOIGNE
"By hovering between realisation and suggestion, Chapman succeeds in trapping life's incompleteness. Some things are defined, others left unsaid; an open-endedness that reflects the speed of life and the intoxication of its possibilities, both pleasurable and endlessly frustrating".
RITA BERTANI
"Chapman manipulates the colours of flesh to such an extent that it looks remarkably alive, without many edges. The edges (or the background) he paints at the same time as the subject. There are few hard edges which give the figures an expression of mobility and warm context. These paintings engage us, and keep our eyes moving across the whole surface".
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Cooper Gallery, New Zealand
Redpath Gallery, Australia
Landis Gallery, South Africa
Abberbach Fine Art
Amalgam Gallery
Grace Barrand Design Centre
MIXED EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE
Tauranga Society of Arts
Cooper Gallery
Brisbane Art Gallery
Redpath Gallery
Landis Gallery
Abberbach Fine Art
University of Toronto
Laing Art Company
London Art Fair, Design Centre
Artistes de Grand Bretagne, Paris
RA Summer Exhibitions
Seen Galleries
New Grafton Galleries
20th Century British Art Fair
London Art Fair Islington
Beck Gallery, Munich
Spirit of London Exhibition
Singer Friedlander
West Wales Art Centre
Amalgam Gallery
Mid Cornwall Gallery
Alpha House Gallery
Grace Barrand Design Centre
Bruton Gallery
AWARDS INCLUDE
Radio Rotorua Award, New Zealand
Chambers of Commerce Painting Award, New Zealand
R.A. Student Award for Portraiture
Spirit of London Painting Competition best Watercolour
Spirit of London Painting Runner up
Le Diplome De Societaire, Paris
Hawker Siddley Trophy
Discerning Eye Award
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE
University of London Toronto
The Astor Family
Erin Pizzey
Reuters
Sir Trevor McDonald
Gerald Smith
Corporate and Private Collections World Wide.