About Keith Salmon
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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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Commissions
2014
Matarazzo Hospital Arts Project (‘Made In Brazil’) of over 100 international artists, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Commission to paint 4 paintings based on my artistic interpretation of the project. Included all expenses paid visit to Sao Paolo to experience the project.
2013
Private commission for a painting, 89 cm x 65 cm
2007
Private commission for a painting, 102 cm x 200cm
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Solo Exhibitions
2023
‘Painting with Sound – Short Walks along the West Coast of Scotland’, Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
2022
‘Painting with Sound…the story continues’, Barony Centre, West kilbride
2018
‘Contemporary Scottish Landscape Paintings and Drawings’, Moray Arts Centre, Moray
‘Painting with Sound’, Barony Centre, West kilbride
2017
“The Oregon project”, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
2014
‘In Sun, snow, mist and rain’, Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
The Glen Rosa, big drawing project, Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
2013
‘In sun, rain, mist and snow’, Gallery on the corner, Edinburgh
‘Recent work’, Blairmore Gallery, Dunoon
2011
‘Impressions of the Scottish Upland landscape’, The Strathearn Gallery, Creiff
‘Painting & Drawing’, Blairmore Gallery, Dunoon
‘Paintings from the hill’, Gallery Q, Dundee
‘Scottish Landscape’, Künstlerhaus Gallery, Speyer, Germany
2010
Künstlerhaus Gallery, Speyer, Germany
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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Joint Exhibitions
2009
‘Work by Keith Salmon & Alison Thomas, Blairmore Gallery, Nr Dunoon
2008
‘Natural Selection, work by Keith Salmon & Alison Thomas’, HAC Irvine
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Group Exhibitions
2014
‘Spring Exhibition’, Framework Gallery, Perth
Jolomo Award exhibition, University gallery, Dundee
Gallery on the corner, Edinburgh
Autumn exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Gallery, Largs, Ayrshire
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition, Eglinton Park, Ayrshire
2013
Strathearn Gallery, Creiff
North Ayrshire Open Art Exhibition
‘Gallery on the corner’, Edinburgh
Frames Gallery, Troon
2012
Six into Twelve plus Hornel, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
The Big Postcard Exhibition, Scotlandart.com, Edinburgh
Strathearn Gallery, Creiff
2011
North Ayrshire Open Exhibition, Eglinton Park, Ayrshire
Scottish Showcase Gallery, Kirkcudbright
The Frameworks Gallery, Troon, Ayrshire
2010
Jolomo Award 2009, The Strathearn Gallery, Creiff
Athol Gallery, Dunkeld
Fisher Gallery, Pittenweem
Jolomo Award Exhibition, London
Scotlandart.com, Glasgow
Gallery on the Corner, Edinburgh
2009
Jolomo Awards 2009, short-listed artists, Edinburgh
North Ayrshire Open Exhibition, Eglinton Park, Ayrshire
TSB Bank, Edinburgh
Blairmore Gallery, Blairmore, Dunoon, 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 Contemporary 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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Public Collections
Speyer City Council, Speyer, Germany
North Ayrshire Council, Scotland
BlindArt National Permanent Collection, Scotland
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Scholarships
2010
Speyer International Arts Scholarship, Germany
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Awards
2011
Millers Prize, North Ayrshire Open exhibition
2009
Jolomo Award, 1st Prize, Scotland
2006
Rotary Club Prize, North Ayrshire Exhibition
1984
Northern Arts artists’ award