About Keith Salmon
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Biography
Exhibitions
Collections
Awards
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Biography
I was born in Essex in 1959 and moved with my family to Wales in the late 60’s.
I studied Fine Art at Shrewsbury and Falmouth Schools of Art between 1979 and 1983, before setting up a studio in Newcastle upon Tyne where I worked for the next few years.
In 1989 I moved back to Wales to join my partner and together we set up a new studio. Around this time I was diagnosed as having diabetic retinopathy. my sight deteriorated very quickly and within a few years I had to stop exhibiting work and instead try to find new ways of painting, using just the very limited sight I now had left. I´m now registered blind.
This has however, simply provided me with even more determination to continue with my artwork. In doing so, I´ve attempted to discover alternative means of working. This has involved experimenting with painting and printing techniques as well as looking at sculpture through a variety of mediums.We moved to Ayrshire in 1998 and by this time I had enough confidence in the new paintings and drawings to once again start exhibiting them. I now have a studio space at Courtyard Studios in Irvine and exhibit my work regularly again.
In recent times I have tried to find ways of working that allow me to overcome the problems inherent in producing very visual material, with very limited vision. I have tried to explore my new and changing view, recording, (using oil paint and pastel) not what I see, but rather how I now see my surroundings.
The paintings have become thicker, the paint at times almost bludgeoned into place, the surface scraped and re-built forming overlapping layers of colour and glimpsed highlights of line and form.
Although still based on places known to me, the images I produce are becoming more distorted and broken. My drawings, built from numerous coloured lines woven together, are more like organised scribbles.
I hope that you, can connect with these paintings, and have as much fun viewing them as I had painting them.
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Solo Exhibitions
2009
Great Glen House, Inverness, Scotland
2006
Gallimaufry Gallery, Blairmore, nr Dunoon
Scotland
2003
Drawing and Painting, Harbour Arts Centre,
Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
2002
Drawing and Painting, Harbour Arts Centre,
Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
2001
Drawing and Painting, Harbour Arts Centre,
Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
1985
Drawing and Sculpture, The Music Hall, Shrewsbury, England
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Group Exhibitions
2009
TSB Bank, Edinburgh
Blairmore Gallery, Blairmore, Scotland
Gallimaufry Gallery, Blairmore, Dunoon, Scotland
2008
Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, Scotland
Gallery 23, Glasgow, Scotland
North Ayrshire Open Exhibition, Kilwinning, Scotland
Gallimaufry Gallery, Blairmore, Dunoon, Scotland
Azure, Ayr, Scotland
Overt Gallery, Newmilns, Scotland
Rosie McKenzie Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Magenta Muse.com, on-line gallery
2007
Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Gallimaufry Gallery, Blairmore, Dunoon, Scotland
The Gallery Stewarton, Scotland
Glasgow Art Fair, The Kalyani Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Overt Gallery, Newmilns, Scotland
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Racquet Hall,
Eglinton Country Park, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
2006
Ardshiel Gallery, Isle of Arran, Scotland
The Gallery, Stewarton, Scotland
Gallimaufry Gallery, Blairmore, Dunoon, Scotland
Overt Gallery, Newmilns, Scotland
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
2005
The Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, Paisley, Scotland
Sense & Sensuality, BlindArt Exhibition, RCA, London, England
Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge, Scotland
Riverside Gallery, Stonehaven, Scotland
Eduardo Alessandro Fine Art, Broughty Ferry, Scotland
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Racquet Hall,
Eglinton Country Park, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
2004
RNIB centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
2003
Frames Contemparary Gallery, Perth, Tayside, Scotland
The Courtyard Studios Group Exhibition,
Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Racquet Hall,
Eglinton Country Park, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
2002
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Racquet Hall,
Eglinton Country Park, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
2001
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Racquet Hall,
Eglinton Country Park, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
2000
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Racquet Hall,
Eglinton Country Park, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland
1992
Wales Art Fairs, Cardiff, Wales.
(Work represented by Oriel ty Bwer and
Red Square Gallery at these fairs)
1991
Wales Art Fairs, Cardiff, Wales.
(Work represented by Oriel ty Bwer and
Red Square Gallery at these fairs)
Welsh Contemporaries, Red Square Gallery, London, England
1990
Dyfed Open, Carmarthen, Wales
1986
Northern Open, Washington Arts Centre,
Tyne and Wear, England
1985
Open Drawing ’85, Tettenhall Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
MA Group Show, Newcastle Polytechnic,
Tyneside Artists Group, Newcastle Fringe Festivals, England
1984
Tyneside Artists Group, Newcastle Fringe Festivals, England
1983
Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester &
Tettenhall Gallery, Wolverhampton, England
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Collections
North Ayrshire Council, Scotland
BlindArt National Permanent Collection, Scotland
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Awards
2009
Jolomo Award, 1st Prize, Scotland
2006
Rotary Club Prize, North Ayrshire Exhibition
1984
Northern Arts artists’ award
